Existing users, 
User Name justwhatever
Member Since 2008-11-06
Total number of Feedback Posts: 21
Total number of comments: 6
Last 10 Feedback Posts by justwhatever [ Search for All ]
OpenLink Lite Edition ODBC Driver for SQL Server (TDS) 6.02.3280 (Mac OS X)
$300 per seat for the Lite version? As a developer, that price seems crazy high. And I can't imagine how expensive the full version would be. And this is just the adapter, as you still need to buy the database as well (which also generally have per-seat licenses...) [alert admin]
Thursday, November 05 2009 @ 09:19 PM PST
Apple Xcode 3.2.1 (Mac OS X)
Um, 3.2.1 was released a month ago (10/8/2009)
Just so others don't rush off to download a version they may already have... [alert admin]
Sunday, November 01 2009 @ 08:25 PM PST
Perforce 2009.1 (Mac OS X)
Works great, not really 'freeware' 
I love using Perforce, and have used it both in 'paid' and 'free' situations. I would not consider it freeware, as if you choose to use it 'for free', you are limited to 2 users, and 2 client views, so unless you are by yourself or on a very small team, you need to pay a fair amount per user (and yearly fee's to upgrade the server to the latest version). This is just a clarification, because the 2009.1 update page in versiontracker listed it as freeware, while the earlier 2004.x page has an actual price. It's expensive compared to free (cvs, and now subversion, git, etc...), but cheaper than most of the competition. I've used it for 10 years, and the server has only crashed on me once (p4d), and I haven't lost even an update or got a corrupt file from the crash or multiple forced restarts of the machine hosting it. It's also got clients for a crazy number of platforms, including both a GUI client and a cli tool for Mac OS X, and it's supported within XCode. The initial learning curve for setting up and using the client is pretty high, and it may take a couple of projects for you to figure out the best way to organize the source in Perforce for your specific needs. As a guidepost, I would rather kill myself than use CVS, I'm not a fan of distributed scm's like git or mercurial, I wouldn't touch Seapine's scm with a ten foot pole after having used TestTrack for years and having it crash with even light (as in 2 users) usage and corrupt it's databases multiple times, and haven't looked at systems that don't have a native Mac client. I may switch to Subversion now that they have improved handling of branches and there is more mature client software available, but there doesn't seem to be anything really compelling with it over Perforce other than it's free (server and basic clients). [alert admin]
Tuesday, August 18 2009 @ 11:44 PM PDT
EasyFind 4.5 (Mac OS X)
Pros It works it's free it's got great searching options Cons I find it is significantly slower than 'Find Any File', particularly if it has to search through a large number of files initial UI is very busy can't resize file name column to see longer file names [alert admin]
Post a comment | More Info | 2 of 2 users found this helpful
Thursday, July 09 2009 @ 11:28 AM PDT
Etchasoft Reports 0.81 (Mac OS X)
Difficult to justify spending time on this
As a developer, how can you justify spending any amount of time with this (other than just playing around with it), when you have no idea what kind of pricing they will throw at you? You have no idea what they might do (charge per developer, per end-user, per form generated), so you can't realistically start embedding this into your app (well, unless you have an endless bucket of money to give them). [alert admin]
Post a comment | More Info | 0 of 1 users found this helpful
Tuesday, June 16 2009 @ 02:36 PM PDT
SurgeMail Mail Server 4.0u (Mac OS X)
Just a note that pricing starts at $175 for commercial use. It's sold on a per-user basis, along with annual support fee's. This is not meant to be either positive or negative, merely information. [alert admin]
Read Comments (1) | More Info | 0 of 1 users found this helpful
Monday, May 25 2009 @ 12:51 AM PDT
REALbasic Starter Kit 0.7.2 (Mac OS X)
Selling sample code to people new to the platform. This kind of code is normally FREE. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if it was just repackaged code from RealSoftware (not that I know one way or the other)... [alert admin]
Post a comment | More Info | 2 of 2 users found this helpful
Saturday, April 18 2009 @ 11:27 AM PDT
TestTrack TCM 2009 (Mac OS X)
I've used an earlier version for more than a year. http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/10211704 [alert admin]
Tuesday, March 24 2009 @ 12:13 PM PDT
Surround SCM 2009 (Mac OS X)
First, this software is most definitely NOT shareware. This is a commercial application. You need to ask them for a license to even evaluate it. Hell, you even have to ask them how much the product is, as pricing info is nowhere to be found on their website. Second, I used their TestTrackPro software for several years. The server constantly crashed, corrupting the databases so that I had to send them to Seapine to repair them and send them back (with the server down in the meantime), and with no idea how much data had been lost. If you want to pay for SCM, I have to recommend Perforce over Surround. It's about the same price (as I have asked Seapine for pricing info), but Perforce server and clients have been rock solid for the almost 10 years I've used it. Perforce server hasn't crashed once, and even with the machine itself being force-restarted (without shutting down Perforce first), Perforce db's haven't been corrupted or lost any data. And if you're not into paying for an SCM server, you might as well go with Subversion if you want to run a server, or 'git' if you want to use a distributed scm (which is the 'cool' thing now). But for me personally, it will be a cold day in hell before I use any software from Seapine again. [alert admin]
Monday, March 23 2009 @ 01:09 PM PDT
aMule 2.2.3 (Mac OS X)
It's listed as 4K, but current download (for v2.2.3) is 28.9 Mb. [alert admin]
Saturday, March 21 2009 @ 12:29 AM PDT
Last 10 Comments by justwhatever [ Search for All ]
Hard to use, very expensive, and very "closed"
I'm not sure what you found difficult about setting up the server, as it consists of a single unix 'server' tool, that works quite easily with launchd on Mac OS X. There are some parameters to specify when running the tool, but the pdf manual pretty clearly explains them (basically, put scm revision files inside folder at path X, and put scm incremental files at path Y (which should be on a different physical…
Original feedback item : Read More(1 words)
Tuesday, August 18 2009 @ 11:26 PM PDT
google for something called "requiem"
Original feedback item : Read More
Wednesday, April 22 2009 @ 12:16 AM PDT
Only the DivX 7 player app needs Intell CPU.
While the components may be Universal, the installer bails on PPC systems. It seems bizarre that they only made the player app Intel-only, as that should be the easiest to make Universal. As a developer, I know that making the codec's is the hard part, because they are highly-performance critical.
Original feedback item : Read More
Tuesday, April 21 2009 @ 12:04 PM PDT
Missing command-line interface
Um, maybe try reading the documentation? From the FAQ: Is there a command line tool? The command line tool freeze can be used to build a project from the shell.
Original feedback item : Read More
Sunday, March 15 2009 @ 11:09 AM PDT
Powerful tool for almost any design project
yes, but it also clearly is a Windows-first app, modified only enough to work on the Mac. Ridiculously expensive for such a poor, clearly Windows-based implementation.
Original feedback item : Read More
Tuesday, March 03 2009 @ 07:01 PM PST
Yeah, it looks crazy. From the developer's web page: "DMG Canvas is free, but if you find it to be a useful tool, consider making a donation towards future development by registering it" So, it should be listed as donationware, not freeware.
Original feedback item : Read More
Wednesday, December 03 2008 @ 05:43 PM PST
