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User Name mark_cairns
Member Since 2001-05-26
Total number of Feedback Posts: 85
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v3.04 on OSX10.4.11 crashes from the outset. DON'T UPGRADE 
Damn, I hate the way Apple has screwed us all over by forcing on us an upgrade we don't want or need. Since updating to OSX10.4.11 (with the mandatory bundle new v3 Safari) it has *never* opened for me from the outset. Yet FireFox and my favourite OmniWeb 5.6 work faultlessly. Way to go Apple! I want my damned Safari 2 back! Total and utter sh1te! [alert admin]
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Friday, March 07 2008 @ 04:12 PM PST
AliasKeys 1.1 (Mac OS X)
Finally an OSX replacement for Connectix TURBOKEYS
Well I've hunted high and low for a silent, unassuming piece of software that worked almost identically to Connectix brilliant "Turbokeys" from their OS9-only COPY AGENT software (just waiting on somebody writing an equivalent to their "Smart Replace" in Copy Agent now too). Works really well, although I'd like it to be easier to assign the Hotkey for the application I want to launch whenever the Application is dragged and dropped onto the canvas. It should be asking for the hotkey combination there and then rather than leave it blank. It is a little clunky to then have to go and double-click on relevant column to enter the key combination. It works perfectly well yes, but could be a little slicker. It would have been nice if Beniot had seen Turbokeys in the old days. Anyway, I would give it 4.5/5 at the moment due to the above, but am feeling generous today and *do* realise it's only at v1.1 of its development so can forgive my little quibble. It's stable though (in OSX 10.49 on my Intel MacPro) so I've paid the $15 registration and am very happy with it. [alert admin]
Thursday, June 14 2007 @ 12:18 PM PDT
Apple Mac OS X 10.4.4 (Mac OS X)
On installation of the 10.44 update, and Repairing Permissions afterwards, it completely wiped everything in VX... Inbox, Address Book, Sent Items, Signatures etc. Thanks Apple. This is going to waste a few hours. [alert admin]
Friday, January 13 2006 @ 08:55 AM PST
Adobe Reader 7.0.5 (Mac OS X)
Works great... just download direct from Adobe FTP site!
v7.05 works great for me in Tiger 10.42. Dare I say that "Subaru32"s obvious but very simple advice of going direct through the FTP site is everyone's best bet. Learn something new every day. Good one! :D Just use the Finder's "Connect To Server..." and type in: ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/ ...which will then come up on the desktop. Navigate through it for whatever you need. No more Adobe Down-Over-loaded Manager. Wonderful. ;) [alert admin]
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Monday, October 17 2005 @ 03:54 AM PDT
TechTool Pro 4.0.5 (Mac OS X)
TTP 4.01 Optimisation - and my feelings on TTP
I was the first to report this fatal error to Micromat when the original 4.01 CDs came out (there was no 4.0); basically the 4.01 Optimisation procedure trashed 3 of my G4s back then. Micromat spent months trying to solve the problem (their main programmer obviously hadn't got a clue where he'd gone wrong IMHO!). To be fair to MM, they have since seemingly solved it on the latest couple of releases from 4.04 onwards, but my point is that they released software on original CD that was fatally flawed. The original early adopters (who'd paid for and waited nearly a year for MM to get their finger out and release it) now stilll have to pay MM another $10 bucks+ to get a .0x upgrade CD to fix their flaw. I feel this is unjustified and that the 4.01 CD early adopters should get a 4.04/5 CD for free for the hassle & damage it has caused. They should change their system to allow us, the users & owners of the CD to make a new version of the original CD, but with an updated main program. *That* is what the .0x upgrades should also be doing as well as updating the copy already on the Hard Drive I feel. Before you ask why I don't just create an eDrive and forget about the original start-up CD, I personally feel their .0x upgrade procedure is also fundamentally flawed because you have to create an eDrive from your start-up CD first (so the main system + hard drive etc. isn't active); then upgrade it manually later. Well it never works correctly for me no matter what way I try it on different machines. Catch-22. As I said, the upgrades should allow us to create our OWN incremental start-up CDs and not have to keep MM's revenue stream going 4-times a year to have to purchase a new 4.0x CD off them each time. They're just holding a gun to our heads. Yes, every company has to many money but that's taking the piss. Shame really as I've been loyally using TT since version 2 and always preferred its results over Norton's effort. I just feel MicroMat have completely lost the plot in the past two years; back in the old days I remember E-mailing the main programmer (whoever it was back then) personally with feature suggestions and bug-fix requests and there were written, implemented and released just 10 days later. Now *that* was service and a company who was switched on. Those days have long gone, as now has my loyalty. I've since switched my allegiance to the newcomer on the block for OSX drive maintenance -- DRIVE GENIUS! Look it up on VersionTracker. It's cheaper that TTP too. I recommend the rest of you talk with your feet to and maybe MicroMat will finally get the message to wise up and produce a worthy product that does what it says on the tin. Shame really. What a waste. [alert admin]
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Saturday, August 13 2005 @ 10:15 AM PDT
WindowShade X 3.6 (Mac OS X)
Within System Preferences, it's normal name of "Windowshade X" has been superceded by a Preference name of "com.unsanity.windowshadex.prefpane" in amongst the rest of the Unsanity Apps... thus it obviously overlaps Application Enhancer 1.51 and Fruit Menu's names on either side of it. Very unsightly! Get it fixed Unsanity! [alert admin]
Tuesday, July 12 2005 @ 04:35 AM PDT
MatrixCaseSwapper 1.0.4 (Mac OS X)
Someone did a new version of the long-lost "CHANGE-CASE" that we all used on versions 3.32 - 4.11. It used Cmd-5 for Upper Case, and Cmd-6 for Lower Case back then on the fly. Lovely. [alert admin]
Tuesday, July 05 2005 @ 09:50 AM PDT
Galacticaa 1.0 (Mac OS X)
Someone has wayyy too much time on their hands. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, July 05 2005 @ 09:46 AM PDT
FruitMenu 3.4.1 (Mac OS X)
I don't give the full set of stars easily, but WOW! Serious speed up from 3.40 to 3.41 on Tiger 10.41. *FINALLY* all four of the main $7 dollar Haxies from Unsanity work together seamlessly and in harmony again. About bloody time! Well done Unsanity! Now just get the "Sort List By Label" feature working globally in Folders (as it used to in OS9) in Labels X as a Contextual menu and I'll give you 6 stars. [alert admin]
Tuesday, June 28 2005 @ 05:01 AM PDT
Labels X 1.7 (Mac OS X)
Unsanity still need to get the "View By Label" feature globally working properly (as it used to in OS9), either as a "View" option, or as a Contextual menu. What's the point of being able to colour icons if one can't use them productively to manage the order of folders / documents within a folder? Apart from that long-need point, it's great, stable and works seamlessly with the other big four haxies (and they work in Tiger 10.41) [alert admin]
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Monday, June 27 2005 @ 10:55 AM PDT
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Solution from MacSoft TECH SUPPORT
...which means type '0' into BOTH fields!
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Thursday, May 20 2004 @ 09:19 AM PDT
