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User Name macmedix
Member Since 2000-07-19
Total number of Feedback Posts: 27
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Comictastic 2.3.2 (Mac OS X)
Comictastic is still my favorite comic scraping software. I use it every morning to read the funnies on my Mac, as I have for several years. Sometimes it is a little tricky to configure it to get the comic I want, but (except for flash) is always does it. I love being able to see my 42 favorite comics without having to wait for & deal with al the blinking spinning ads on the websites. Yes, the developer said he has moved on. But the software still works. If you don't buy a license, it displays one of several nag comics to ask you to pay. Simply click to the next or any other comic to clear that for awhile. So everyday, all I have to do is launch Comictastic (automated via Cronnix) and press the down arrow to see each new comic. Those are all cached on my HD, with option of how long to keep, so performance is great, even on a slow internet connection. I haven't found anything that works as well as Comictastic for what it does. [alert admin]
Thursday, April 17 2008 @ 10:11 AM PDT
Comictastic 2.3.2 (Mac OS X)
Comictastic is still my favorite comic scraping software. I use it every morning to read the funnies on my Mac, as I have for several years. Sometimes it is a little tricky to configure it to get the comic I want, but (except for flash) is always does it. I love being able to see my 42 favorite comics without having to wait for & deal with al the blinking spinning ads on the websites. Yes, the developer said he has moved on. But the software still works. If you don't buy a license, it displays one of several nag comics to ask you to pay. Simply click to the next or any other comic to clear that for awhile. So everyday, all I have to do is launch Comictastic (automated via Cronnix) and press the down arrow to see each new comic. Those are all cached on my HD, with option of how long to keep, so performance is great, even on a slow internet connection. I haven't found anything that works as well as Comictastic for what it does. [alert admin]
Thursday, April 17 2008 @ 10:11 AM PDT
PGP Desktop Home 9.7 (Mac OS X)
Can't install or even demo without live internet connection
PGP Desktop Home Mac OSX 9.7.1 What a mess. I've used PGP disk for years, without major incident, but yesterday it took 90 minutes to install/activate. (NOT counting purchasing, downloading, or waiting for the license email). I purchased and downloaded the PGP desktop home 9.71 from my home Mac, which does have internet (for security reasons). Put the installer & pdf license on a USB drive & traveled to the secure computer at the office which does not have internet. The only function we use is PGP Disk. (Not whole disk encryption, just pgp encrypted disk image volumes). Turns out you can't use the software unless it activates via an internet connection, which that location does not have. The 30 day trial also requires internet to activate. So after purchasing we were stuck. I finally disconnected the Mac from all cables, and took it down the block and used their internet. Which of course, didn't work right away, so I needed to swap the 2 computers again to see the network settings. The swap again & reconnect ours, and finally, we had internet & were able to "activate" the dang software on our Mac. Then put everything back, thank the neighbors, and haul our Mac back to our office. After the fact, I did notice a phone number in tiny print at the bottom of the pdf attached to the emailed order confirmation. Perhaps they could have done a phone activation if I had noticed that & called, but they certainly could have been more forthcoming about it. I expect that a great place to show that phone number would be in the PGP dialog box that says you can't activate PGP becasue there is not internet. They also could have mentioned on the receipt that internet is required to activate the software, so I could have made plans. Note that you can't even do the "30 day demo" without live internet. It just refuses. This stupid business wasted almost 2 hours each for 3 people. What a pain. What a totally avoidable pain. Next time, I'm recommending an encrypted Apple DMG file. Free, also encrypted, very stable, and far less trouble. Because of all this hassle, and the very unsettling stories of lost data on PDP encrypted disks, this will probably be my last purchase of PGP. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, February 05 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
BackupMan 2.3 (Palm OS)
WorksGreat, backs up on schedule. Preserves all kinds of invisible settings too. Faster Memory cards really help! Works even when Palm phone is off, and closed. Has really saved me a few times when my Palm phone crashed & lost everything. In about 3 minutes I was totally ok again! I highly recommend BackUpMan! [alert admin]
Thursday, August 02 2007 @ 02:22 AM PDT
PDFpen 2.4.2 (Mac OS X)
2.4.2 is HUGE improvement over previous versions 
I'm so glad to report the PDFPEN v2.4.2 corrects many long standing buggy, crashy behaviours. In the past I was unable to recommend PDF Pen, because when I did, it would crash, or lose pasted graphics, added text would go invisible, toolbar icons would vanish, etc. Very discouraging. But this version of PDF Pen corrects all those bugs, and is now VERY USABLE for typing directly onto PDF pages & forms that were not created to be "fillable forms". I can now happily type onto PDF documents of all sorts and people don't have to try & decipher my handwriting. Kudos to the developer for squashing those old bugs & making this is useful application! :-) Actually, it's kind of hard to believe that Adobe never offered this level of ease of use to mark up PDFs. [alert admin]
Wednesday, November 15 2006 @ 03:51 PM PST
Little Snitch 1.2.3 (Mac OS X)
Little Snitch has taught me about network communications, port numbers, and the software I use. Little Snitch tells me what software is sending outgoing communications and on what ports. Even though I usually "allow once", I find this interesting, and sometimes unexpected. I've found Little Snitch to be very stable & trouble-free with OS X (10.3.9). I bought it and enjoy it's occasional pop-up messages with option to deny or allow the outgoing traffic. Even the icons are well done. It's also interesting to discover unexpected outgoing traffic from programs I didn't even launch, such as Software update and Terminal (curl). Or to discover that one application has invisibly launched 2 more applications. Without Little Snitch, I never would have known what was happening right here in my own Mac! Little Snitch helps keep me in touch with the applications running on my Mac. I feel more comfortable knowing what my Mac is sending out and being in control of it. If there ever is a Mac virus that attempts to send my personal info to hackers, I expect Little Snitch will prevent and expose that outgoing traffic, saving me from disaster. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, October 04 2006 @ 11:55 AM PDT
USB Overdrive 10.4.5 (Mac OS X)
Good because it can allow a scollwheel to operate FileMaker Pro 6 via the page up & page down controls. This is wonderful! :-)
Bad because it interferes with Palm Sync.
Palm wins....
I had to uninstall USB Overdrive.
Otherwise it seems pretty good. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, September 06 2006 @ 03:43 PM PDT
SteerMouse 3.4 (Mac OS X)
Doesn't work with FileMaker (scroll up/down)
FileMaker Pro 6 has annoyed me for a long time in that it doesn't support scroll wheels. I thought that SteerMouse might help - it is not able to "page up" & "page down" using mouse commands. So I tried USB OverDrive which is able to do that. I'm sure there are other wonderful features of SteerMouse, but that was the only one I needed right now. Thanks anyway. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, August 29 2006 @ 05:13 PM PDT
Kunvert 1.5.1 (Mac OS X)
It does indeed allow you to set the scale before the conversion to JPG from PDF. I tried a PDF newsletter at 150%. I regret to say that the text quality is terrible. Almost unreadable. It appears to me as if the PDF->JPG conversion is done first, then the scaling. Should be the other way around. Photos are ok. Also, No matter what I try, it only converts the 1st page of a PDF, even though it says it will convert page 2 or 3... I was really hoping this was going to be a good & usable software. :-| At least it's very easy to use, so you can quickly tell if it suits your needs or not. It didn't work out for me. [alert admin]
Thursday, March 23 2006 @ 11:51 PM PST
Rumpus 4.2.1 (Mac OS X)
Works Great, and great support too
I was going to try & cobble together a PHP interface to let our print customers upload files to our webserver. Rumpus is the amazingly great FTP Server with the odd name. The only problems we had turned out to the be ISP blocking some of our ports. But John was right there & helped diagnose, so we could move fwd. We bought it, upgraded to Pro, and use it every day now. Great stuff. Very sturdy. Runs on Mac OSX, but can deal with web & ftp clients from any kind of computer. We really like the email notifications (to the correct salesperson for that customer!) A lot more features than I would have been able to build in php, and Rumpus is a lot cheaper than what I would have spent doing it myself. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, February 28 2006 @ 02:27 PM PST
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Google Toolbar Spell check for Firefox
Until it becomes a built in feature...
The Google Toolbar for Firefox provides a spellchecker. It's not the same as the built-in Apple spell checker. You have to push the button to use it. But it's built on Google's spellcheck which seems pretty good so far. It also provides a "auto-Form Fill" feature among others. Download it from:
http://toolbar.google.com/firefox/
Works fine for me with Mac OS X & Firefox…
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Thursday, December 08 2005 @ 02:33 PM PST
Emailer support still available
Emailer still works well even in Classic mode of OSX 10.3.x & OSX 10.4.x
For support; Search the Emailer-Talk Archives at:
http://www.mail-archive.com/emailer-talk%40eskimo.com/
Emailer support is available via the Claris Emailer community by joining the email discussion group. Send an email message with a SUBJECT line of "subscribe" to: emailer-talk-request[AT]eskimo.com
Hope this helps!
Dave Nathanson
Mac Medix
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Tuesday, December 06 2005 @ 02:07 PM PST
Lost your iPhotos after dragging some photos into the iPhoto Library folder? Read this...
IF YOU DON'T SEE ANY OF YOUR PHOTOS, -just a white screen that says "loading Photos" and no spinning thing... and you recently saved some photos directly into the iPhoto library FOLDER, bypassing the iPhoto program; remove those manually placed photos from the iPhoto Library & relaunch iPhoto. After you remove any files that iPhoto didn't save into that folder itself, all your photos will be visible again. iPhoto really doesn't like anyone making any changes…
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Friday, August 13 2004 @ 02:32 PM PDT
