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User Name julia2
Member Since 2005-09-11
Total number of Feedback Posts: 87
Total number of comments: 9
Last 10 Feedback Posts by julia2 [ Search for All ]
Saft 10.5.1 (Mac OS X)
I don't know what all the b*tching is about 
I've been using Saft for years, love it, use most of its features constantly without thinking about them, hate using Safari without it, and don't think its feature set is "obsolete". It is (very) reasonably priced, well-maintained, and both the documentation and website have improved greatly over the past year or so. I have never had a single problem upgrading except when I didn't read the instructions carefully. If you follow the instructions (copy the file off the disk image, unmount the disk image, remove any old copies on your hard drive) everything works fine, every time. I don't mind the need to upgrade with every Safari upgrade - it ensures compatibility. Safari isn't upgraded all that often... With the new "License File" scheme, however, I am having a problem, because I don't know where the license file is supposed to go, and there doesn't seem to be any documentation or instructions about this. I'm getting the shareware nag now and would like to stop it as I am a paying customer. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, June 25 2008 @ 12:53 PM PDT
DVD Snap 2.0.1 (Mac OS X)
I can't find anything to complain about
and that's unusual! This is a fine utility, does everything I need it to and does it well. [alert admin]
Wednesday, May 28 2008 @ 07:52 AM PDT
Apple Safari 3.1 (Mac OS X)
System requirements state "10.5" but it in fact requires 10.5.2. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, March 19 2008 @ 06:33 PM PDT
FruitMenu 3.7b1 (Mac OS X)
Although I bought Leopard the day of its release, I held off upgrading until Insanity's haxies became compatible - they're that important to me. They new betas are all working prefectly for me under 10.5.0, just like the beloved Tiger versions. Like Default Folder X, I wouldn't want to have to operate a computer without them. [alert admin]
Sunday, March 16 2008 @ 06:26 AM PDT
Wave Editor 1.3.2 (Mac OS X)
Developer resolved the Universal Access conflict shortly after it was discovered, now fixed in 1.3.3 (which VT is currently unaware of). Developer has responded helpfully within minutes to other support inquiries. Really gives one a lot of confidence in the product and its future. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, March 12 2008 @ 09:19 PM PDT
Awaken 4.0.11 (Mac OS X)
I like the look and feel of this app very much, it's gorgeous. Functionally, however, it's got a few issues. This morning it didn't wake me - its screen said the alarm was in progress, but iTunes was paused. Further investigation showed that the song selected in iTunes had its checkbox un-checked (I have a number of songs I keep in my collection but do not want in regular play rotation (30-minute classical pieces, Christmas songs, etc.). Maybe that's why Awaken choked, I don't know. But reliability is paramount in an alarm clock application. When turning on the sleep timer, the program interrupts the currently-playing iTunes song and starts playing a new song. This is quite annoying, it'd be much better if it just started the timer and left iTunes alone at that point. The program also really needs to have a slow fadeout option on the sleep timer function, it is not conducive to sleep to have the music continue at full volume and then suddenly cut off. There is little/no documentation, the Help screen says "Coming in software update". I wrote the developer some days ago but haven't received a reply. In fairness, the issue I wrote about (conflict with APE) was mentioned in the Read Me or somewhere, but still I asked a question and a reply would have been nice. I'll definitely buy it if these issues are sorted out. [alert admin]
Sunday, March 09 2008 @ 09:17 AM PDT
MisFox 2.0 (Mac OS X)
I can FINALLY set Yummy FTP as my default FTP client instead of FireFox. Hallelujah. [alert admin]
Tuesday, March 04 2008 @ 09:44 PM PST
Wave Editor 1.3.2 (Mac OS X)
Conflict resolved, this is looking great
The problems I reported back in January have been traced to having "Enable access for assistive devices" enabled in Universal Access. This is necessary for an automatic-move-cursor-to-default-button utility I use. Since Audiofile support identified the problem I've been able to use the program and it's performing flawlessly. Incredibly responsive and elegant. The programmable keyboard shortcuts allow me to use those I've grown accustomed to over 20 years of editing in other programs. Quality of the pitch-shifting algorithm seems quite good, and being able to do processing operations like normalize an entire file with one mouse click without even having to make a selection is very nice. I'd really like to see some window tiling capabilities,but I think it's time to shell out the $200 and say goodbye (and good riddance) to Peak. I can't wait to explore more of what this program can do - layers looks like a great feature for those of us in sound design who do a lot of processing operations. [alert admin]
Tuesday, March 04 2008 @ 08:29 PM PST
AudioFinder 4.7.4 (Mac OS X)
There are enough rave reviews here including my own, but here's an example of the responsiveness of this developer: I posted a bug report on the forum a few nights ago at 9:39PM. Less than 3 hours later the developer responded with an explanation and a promise of an addition to the preferences to deal with my issue. 3-1/2 hours after that, at 4:00 AM, a new version was made available with the change I requested. Wow. [alert admin]
Thursday, February 28 2008 @ 08:59 PM PST
DOT-TUNES 4.0.1.16 (Mac OS X)
Seems to be working well. Has a number of loose ends in the UI, like no way to close the plugin info drawer sticking out of the side of the main window, I can't find any way to give a user admin privileges even though there's a checkbox for it (always grayed out and not mentioned in the documentation), and the "Server Monitor" window doesn't seem to be working at all (doesn't show any server log info), the server messages section of the main window show log-ins but not logouts, the web page control for how many search results to show doesn't seem to work at all. A dialog appears in the publishing process asking for the library and audio files locations which is not in the documentation and has some non-standard interface elements that caused me a few moments of head-scratching. I find the shameless self-promotion and gaudy logos which are pervasive in the program and the web page it publishes very distasteful and un-Mac-like, right down to the all-caps application name. OK, I'll say it, the whole thing really looks like something from the Windows world. Also be aware that it's not really free. Having more than one user will cost you $20, and having changes to your music library auto-updated in DOT.TUNES (OSX)'s database is $40(!). You even have to go through an annoying process to "validate" your "first free plugin" to publish album artwork. I'd much rather just pay a reasonable fee for a program that does what it should. MyTunesRSS provides a much nicer look and feel, includes auto-library sync and cover art publishing but is more techie in its setup and does not offer playback in its published web page, otherwise it'd be the clear choice. [alert admin]
Sunday, February 24 2008 @ 09:51 AM PST
Last 10 Comments by julia2 [ Search for All ]
Never mind, I see that it doesn't support any connection whatever to an Exchange account.
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Sunday, January 20 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
"More time to walk in the woods, make pottery, go fishing, fu ck, lay around in bed all day on my 30 acre historical farm." Are you married?
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Friday, January 18 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
A few more things: I really hate that the modification date of a file is changed by merely opening it in this program. Very bad. Application is now hung creating a system profile in the "Help Desk" bug reporting thingie. Developer did respond promptly to my first review, but I haven't had time to respond or help them debug their program.
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Thursday, January 10 2008 @ 10:08 AM PST
GOODBYE APPLE!! It's been a fun 15 years... 
While I doubt I will ever leave the Mac platform, I do agree that the Mac file search functions are not what they should be. While the concept of Spotlight is great and is occasionally just what the doctor ordered, many times a filename search is all that's wanted or needed. It is absolutely mind-boggling that we do not have it, and with boolean search criteria. Being able to trust search results is really important.…
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Saturday, October 27 2007 @ 06:42 AM PDT
A bit more thoroughness please
OK, I downloaded 1.3.2 and the "Register" button works, but still says I have a trial version. It tells me to drop my license file into the window to register the program. I went back to my original purchase confirmation email and saw that it included a download link to an installer, which was supposed to give me registered copies of all 1.x.x upgrades. OK, my bad originally for not digging enough. So I click…
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Monday, October 22 2007 @ 08:54 PM PDT
A bit more thoroughness please
No, it's 6 weeks later and I've received no reply to my post here or to the email I sent to the developer's tech support. Too bad, it's a great little utility.
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Monday, October 22 2007 @ 08:27 PM PDT
IE is working fine for me!!!!!!
What can you do in Outlook that you can't with Entourage?
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Sunday, January 07 2007 @ 08:13 AM PST
Saft: http://haoli.dnsalias.com/Saft/index.html
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Sunday, October 15 2006 @ 08:00 AM PDT
Fully featured app, easy to use, CPU useage could be improved.
Activity Monitor shows it using 0.00% on my 1.25GHz G4 Mac Mini; Peek-A-Boo shows it hanging mostly around 2-3%.
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Monday, April 17 2006 @ 12:59 PM PDT
