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User Name jwbaumann
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Total number of Feedback Posts: 22
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MacNote 1.0.4 (Mac OS X)
This app doesn't seem to do much that numerous other notes apps don't already do. Locating the toolbar and customizing it is a little arcane (you must click the tic-tac at the upper right of the window). The search feature (which is the weak point of virtually every other notes app) is limited. I can't envision using this for more than a few dozen notes, not the hundreds or thousands of notes that real users would need. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, April 17 2007 @ 11:43 PM PDT
Citrix ICA Client X 7.00.406 (Mac OS X)
I use Citrix to access my school's accounting software. I have been thoroughly pleased with Citrix, firstly in that they HAVE a Mac client, but also in the fairly smooth Mac integration. I can copy to the Windows clipboard and it fills the Mac clipboard. I can save to the Mac desktop with ease. I can open Excel files on my Mac into Citrix. The software auto-updated for me in a completely transparent fashion. Other than the fact that I see Windows apps when I use it, it has been very solid software. [alert admin]
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Thursday, June 29 2006 @ 10:55 PM PDT
RememberMe 1.0 (Mac OS X)
This app has the stability of a pre-alpha. I can crash it by clicking on a different date on the calendar, then clicking "Show Date." Boom. Gone. Reproducible. [alert admin]
Tuesday, April 12 2005 @ 06:40 PM PDT
CubeMovie HD 3.0.1 (Mac OS X)
This is one cool piece of software! I gladly paid the $12 shareware fee to get the annoying (but very effective) DEMO! text off the rendered movie. You'll have to be a bit patient with all the settings, and there are some confusing aspects to the interface, but once you figure it out, you'll have hours of fun. For those of you without a digital video camera, this will allow you to make slideshow movies with such impact that your audience won't even realize they're looking at stills. Twenty digital pictures, an iTunes sound track, iMovie, and an hour or so, and you'll have your winning project ready to show off. Apple would be wise to buy this and include it standard in iMovie. [alert admin]
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Friday, April 01 2005 @ 12:39 AM PST
Parsnips 1.0.1 (Mac OS X)
Author is receptive to feedback
I apologize for the harsh tone of my review. I have posted a very detailed analysis of the issues I brought up (as a comment to Bill's response to me). While I believe all my specific points have merit, they are all very fixable, and I believe at this point that Parsnips probably has more potential than any other PIM I have reviewed. This app is definitely worth revisiting when the next version number is released. [alert admin]
Friday, October 22 2004 @ 08:50 AM PDT
Parsnips 1.0.1 (Mac OS X)
Every one of these PIMs I try has the lamest search functionality. Parsnips cannot find substrings when searching the whole database of records, which is a huge shortcoming and an immediate deal killer. It can't do grep. It can't find the word "is" (maybe that was a Clinton request). The "relevance" percentage is a silly eye candy fiction with no relationship to reality. The only way I can see to do a "show all" is to create a new record and save it, but then the list can't be sorted by recent-ness. There appears to be no way to see a list of only the record titles. The vertical window divider slides left and right by such a tiny amount it's sort of pointless. Exporting produces countless tiny files rather than a single large block of text. This app is wasteful of screen real estate. There are 2 separate "find" features in the same interface, with different visual metaphors and completely different behaviors, which is confusing. Drag and drop seems to not work at all, but I'm too unimpressed to evaluate more. All in all, this app is a sloppy hodepodge of unfocused design and incomplete functionality. [alert admin]
Tuesday, October 19 2004 @ 10:36 AM PDT
MAMP 1.0.a2 (Mac OS X)
Installed on a fresh Jaguar running on a 233MHz desktop G3. Quits spontaneously on start, even after a fresh system restart. Bummer - would've loved to try it (but what the hey - it's only an alpha - the good guys at webEdition will fix it). In the meantime, any ideas? Also, did I read right that this only runs in someone's user space (not at system level)? That kind of defeats the multiuser benefits of Unix, and is why I don't use FileMaker, WebStar, Applescript CGIs, and other SERVER apps that STUPIDLY force you to be logged in thru the GUI to use them. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, October 13 2004 @ 07:33 PM PDT
viJournal 1.3.1 (Mac OS X)
I simply do not understand why it seems that every one of these notebook type applications (yes I know this is a journal app, but at some point there will be hundreds of entries and you will want to find something you previously entered) have such weak, underpowered, and clumsy search features. In order to search all records, you must select all entries, then do a search which steps one by one thru its matches. There is no "Find All." I know that I would quickly outgrow this app without a decent search feature. There also appear to be unimplemented features (eg. "Edit-->Find-->Jump to Selection" - and why is this under "Find"?), broken features (multiple Help menus, multiple duplicates in "Journal-->Recently Viewed", "Clear Menu" in the same cascade needlessly greyed out), destructive features (oops, I started a new record before I saved the current one, now my work is gone because while that tempting plus sign button is there, there is no "Save" button - you must use the keyboard or the menus), and Windows-esque annoyances (why can't I close the notes window with multiple entries selected?). Blogging is obviously a recent addition, so no comment on that one. All in all, this app is not ready for prime time at version 1.3.1. [alert admin]
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Sunday, July 11 2004 @ 06:46 PM PDT
Mulberry 3.1.2 (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X)
Mulberry for anyone looking for a robust mail client. I do not use it for IMAP but only to access several POP3 mail servers, and have found it to be fast and reliable. Two years ago I set out to free myself of AOL. I tried MailSmith, Mail.app, Outlook, Eudora, and even Pine. I found the Mulberry GUI to be incredibly intuitive, with control elements positioned logically and everything behaving exactly as I would have expected. I was quickly sold on the product, sent in my money, and have been using it exclusively ever since. The developers are active and responsive, the discussion list is well attended, and new versions with bug fixes and improvements are released at a comfortable pace. I have had a few crashes with Mulberry, but since I haven't yet upgraded to the latest version I can't count that as negative. I have never, not once, regretted this purchase, or even considered for a moment trying another mail client, something I cannot say about any other class of application. [alert admin]
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Friday, May 21 2004 @ 07:17 PM PDT
HandyList 2.0b6 (Mac OS X)
Why on earth would I use an information organizer application that does not even have a find or search feature? Besides that, even though the product is called handyLIST (emphasis mine), you cannot copy from the email address list, and you cannot add to or edit the URL or file list. Calling this a beta is no excuse. This is a silly little "hello world" type of project that is of no value whatsoever. [alert admin]
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Saturday, May 15 2004 @ 07:41 PM PDT
Last 10 Comments by jwbaumann [ Search for All ]
Thoughtful and detailed response to Bill
Bill, Thanks for the response. Here is my detailed followup, with suggestions. Regarding wastefulness of screen real estate and the limited travel of the vertical pane divider - I am running at 1024 X 768. Even if I enlarge Parsnips to fill the entire screen, I can slide the divider less than a third of the window width, and at that window size, Parsnips is definitely hogging screen real estate. Beyond that, usually I do not want…
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Friday, October 22 2004 @ 08:40 AM PDT
This software does run on a Mac - it was built with BBEdit and is served from Mac OS X Server. I had offered it as a download, but no one used it because few people have installed MySQL and PHP. If Apple ever includes MySQL/PHP with Mac OS X, I may reconsider. Version Tracker chose to have the download link go directly to the registration page, which I admit is confusing. I do wish…
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Saturday, March 27 2004 @ 01:01 AM PST
