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User Name jpellinovt
Member Since 2003-09-26
Total number of Feedback Posts: 8
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zxsp 0.7.2.pre14 (Mac OS X)
Accurate in every way but one...
... as it doesn't let me use my iBook as a proper wedge doorstop like you could the ZX-81. Otherwise great! ;-) [alert admin]
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Thursday, May 01 2008 @ 10:40 AM PDT
Adobe Digital Editions 1.7 (Mac OS X)
Worse than ever. And that's quite a challenge. 
First, they built the original app so that if you so much as moved a folder, your digital editions were rendered useless and you had to go thru long, demeaning harangues with Adobe to get them back. Then they uncoupled this from Adobe reader, and failed to issue a Mac version for months. In the Flash versions so far, all my bought and paid for digital editions came up blank. In this version, they now report actual errors in the PDF files themselves and I'm instructed to go get another copy of each book from the vendor. Adobe's either going to fix this or reimburse me for the $60 worth of digital books I bought that are no longer readable. [alert admin]
Wednesday, June 20 2007 @ 07:17 PM PDT
NewNOTEPAD Pro 2.2.2 (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X)
$23 bucks a pop? That's half what I paid for iLife. For that kind of money I expect proper documentation (the UserGuide in the Documents (English) folder is in Japanese, and most of the rest of the materials are mangled translations. [alert admin]
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Sunday, March 11 2007 @ 07:53 AM PDT
Adobe Reader 8.0 (Mac OS X)
Great. As usual, a release, change of folder, backup, restore, phase of the moon has rendered those eBooks I bought useless. Digital Editions is now an add-on / separate app / who knows what - and it is not available for Mac. Try and read your DRM'd books, and it links to a web site that has no installer for Mac. Pitiful. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, December 05 2006 @ 04:08 PM PST
Apple iPhoto 5.0.2 (Mac OS X)
The slide show you're seeing is not a file, but a live performance by your video card, which wouldn't work the same way on another machine. Quicktime is the only thing that can make it happen roughly the same way elsewhere. You can show movies fullscreen with a Pro license, but they'll be enlarged from 720x480. You're right - it'd be great if Apple could export the paramteres of a slide show along with the album it needs. However, imagine that iApps made a new copy of any picture you feel like using for more than one task. Ditto music. You'd run out of hard drive space in short time. It's the difference between keeping copies of files and keeping aliases. iPhoto will duplicate what it sees on your other photo folders if asked to, so see (1) below as well. The advanced tasks you're trying to do for slide shows (many minutes of multiple songs on a slide show, and much more exportable) are better tackled by iMovie. However there are some workable fixes to some of the frustrations you are experiencing. (1) Put your photos on a CD for archival purposes, then let iPhoto handle them, delete any other folders of them you may have had on the hard drive of the same originals for other reasons. I started doing this back in iPhoto4, and it preserves sanity. You know you have a CD backup of originals, and you know the only other place they are is in iPhoto. Also, do camera imports right into iPhoto, then burn these rolls to CD. If you can, don't purge the camera until you've seen the CD reaed properly in some drive after burning. Sounds light a risk, but I've run like this for over year, with thousands of pics, I know I have originals and can manage them in iPhoto, I have it set to edit in Photoshop, and it all works great. (2) Also - if iPhoto is crashing more often than almost never, you may want to audit what else you have on the machine - 3rd party stuff etc. I run a stable of several generations of Macs running Panther and iLife 05 - and I'm hard pressed to remember the last time iPhoto so much as misbehaved. Frequent crashes need looking into, and every crash gives you the opportunity to report it to Apple - use it, they do. (3) Slide shows - Try to make an album of the slides you want in a show, and arrange them there first. Yes, you'll likely still have to tweak in the slide show mode later, but much less than if you start with an unorganized set of slides in a slideshow. Again, once a slide show gets complicated, you're often better off in iMovie - there is an obvious overlap in their abilities, so it's a judgement call in which to start with, but it get easy to tell when it's time to switch to one or the other. Your list of demands sounds mission-critical - like you are doing professional level stuff, which might be better served by Motion, FinalCut and the like. A lot of what you wish for would be great improvments. Likely Apple doesn't read here much. You can send all this feedback to Apple via the "Provide iPhoto Feedback" menu item in any iApp. You might want to tone down the use of the word "must" on your list of demands - good applications are permissive and forgiving for the widest range of users, not tied by decree to anyone's individual needs. Best of luck. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, July 13 2005 @ 02:09 PM PDT
Virex 7 DAT 050126 (Mac OS X)
.mac eUpdate now grabs this one.
it wasn't noticing this update until about 15 minutes ago. It's loaded it and is happly chugging away on my HD [alert admin]
Wednesday, January 26 2005 @ 05:04 PM PST
VueScan 8.1.9 (Mac OS X)
Solved the no-scanning problem - you need to: Click on the Input tab, Set "Options" to "Advanced", Uncheck "Scan from Preview" and it will do a separate scan [alert admin]
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Monday, November 15 2004 @ 01:27 PM PST
DataViz MacLinkPlus Deluxe 15.000 (Mac OS X)
Again, like always, they change the program's abilities by 5-10% and charge 50% of the cost of the program. I gave up on them several versions back and use the built in translators in Word and Appleworks and the still-free version of Word Perfect Mac to go WP to RTF... Extracts text from PDFs? Doesn't Acrobat Reader do that out of the free box? [alert admin]
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Thursday, September 16 2004 @ 05:56 PM PDT
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HOW TO MAKE THIS WORK (doesn't)
Of the individual packages: APAdminUtility425.pkg installs fine. APAirportUtility.pkg still claims I need to have 5.0
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Saturday, March 31 2007 @ 07:14 PM PDT
Good luck with the Canon software...
Unless you have Photoshop - for which you paid much more than $49 - the bundled software is a joke compared to that this can do. I paid the $49 a long time ago and this thing just gets better and better.
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Tuesday, March 28 2006 @ 08:22 AM PST
