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User Name memphisbird

Member Since 2005-05-19

Total number of Feedback Posts: 7

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SliceAndDice 4.0 (Mac OS X)

Stone Design’s SliceAndDice has opened up many more creative possibilities for me. The learning curve is very low, and there are excellent examples right in the software to show you how certain effects are created. Rollovers have never been easier. You can even roll over one image and have another image appear somewhere else on the page, offering myriad possibilities for dropdown menus, photo galleries, tool tips, etc. You can also add links, image names, alternative text, and any extra javascript for that image right within SliceAndDice. Once you’ve sliced and diced your image, you can open or add the html S&D creates in any html or text editor for further enhancements and/or editing. When used in combination with Stone Design’s excellent Create software, I have to say that it’s downright fun to use. No, Photoshop it ain’t -- in features or PRICE ($649 for Photoshop, $49 for SliceAndDice). If you already own Photoshop, by all means, use it. But, if you don’t need all the bells and whistles of Photoshop (probably most people don’t), or if you get tired of waiting for Photoshop to open (I do), or If you like extremely responsive and accommodating software support (I sure do) and free software upgrades for life (definitely), you should probably give SliceAndDice a try. [alert admin]

Zooom 1.4.4 (Mac OS X)

A timesaving application

Yet another piece of software that I didn’t know I couldn’t live without until I used it. I always have multiple windows open and am moving and resizing frequently. I didn’t realize what a pain it was to have to find the top (to move) and the corner (to resize) each time until I didn’t have to do it anymore! I actually started with MondoMouse because I saw it in a Versiontracker email; but MondoMouse didn’t work for some of my software that I use frequently, like Appleworks and iTunes. It also gave me problems with Firefox, working sometimes and not others, which proved to be annoying when working quickly, with fingers flying. I searched and found Zooom and was especially pleased, not only because it worked consistently with Firefox, Appleworks, and iTunes, but also because it’s $5.00 cheaper than MondoMouse! There are also a few more bells and whistles in Zooom, and the mouse visuals are more subtle and less obtrusive. I can hardly ask for more. [alert admin]

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Sunday, January 07 2007 @ 12:35 PM PST

Dock-It 2.5.2 (Mac OS X)

How did I ever live without this?

I have been using Dock-It for several months now and have had no problems whatsoever (currently using OS X 10.4.8). It never crashes and it does everything it says it will do. It's so easy to use and I absolutely love not having to open the finder as often, taking the direct route to where I want to go. I tried several extra dock software, but Dock-It is the one I stayed with, and was glad to pay the $10. You can put anything you want in the docks -- folders, documents, applications, et al -- and you can have the docks located all around the edge of your screen in differing sizes. You can have them show all the time or be hidden until you mouse over them. Adding items is as simple as dragging and dropping. There isn't any documentation to speak of, because it's so easy to use. Everything you need to know is right in the preferences. My one and only tiny complaint is that it would be nice to resize the dock icons with a sliding scale like the OSX dock. Instead, you have a choice of Very Small, Small Medium, Medium, and so on, and the jump from Small to Very Small is too much. Small is too big for me and Very Small is too small. Something in between would be good, but that is just nitpicking. [alert admin]

icWord 4.0 (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X)

Does not open all Word documents "like the original"

I bought this software a couple of years ago (3.2) and have been mostly unhappy with it. I did demo it and opened a few files, so I thought it would work for me, and I bought it. Since that time, I have repeatedly wished I had my 20 bucks back. I should have tested it more thoroughly. It says "Open Word, Excel, PowerPoint, AppleWorks and ClarisWorks Documents on Your Mac ... like the original." But, it doesn't open them like the original. My experience has been that icWord RARELY opens/displays photographic images OR clip art images. It only displays the text from these documents, and I can do that much with Appleworks for free. For that matter, I can click on the document in Gmail and view it in HTML format. Word users love to embed their photos and icWord hardly ever displays them. I get a little image telling me it can't display it -- so helpful. I have contacted Panergy and this was their response: "I have checked this and you are right icWord is not showing the picture. We will try to improve the product in a next release so that it support this type of pictures." This has been going on since 3.2. At $20 per update, it seems like this should have been fixed by now. I'm not paying for it anymore. I think I will use their demo for 30 days at a time until they get their act together. Better yet, maybe someone else will come up with a Mac Word viewer that really works! Keeping my fingers crossed. [alert admin]

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Friday, October 06 2006 @ 06:39 AM PDT

DevMode Widget 1.0 (Mac OS X)

Not much to review, but works perfectly.

It's just a tiny little thing and I don't suppose it does that much, but it keeps you from having to go into the terminal and type anything if you want to put a widget on your desktop. Works like a charm. Turn it on and off to do the widget drag thing, and that's all she wrote. That's good enough for me. [alert admin]

Mail Forward X 3.2 (Mac OS X)

Works Great-Never Had Problems-Saves Me Money

I have been using Mail Forward for almost a year now. I've had no problems with it whatsoever and it was well worth the $19.95 I paid for it. It worked for me as soon as I set it up. I used to use Yahoo as my online email service. I paid for their premium service at $19.95 per year so that I could make use of some of the bells and whistles, including POP access and mail forwarding. When Gmail came along, it was good-bye to Yahoo -- for the most part -- but I still get emails at Yahoo and I do want to keep my Yahoo addresses for online ordering, etc. What I did NOT want to do was continue to pay $19.95 per year for the service. With Mail Forward, I don't have to. I paid once for the software and I have it ALL sent to my Gmail account. As for the comment about Gmail is listed at all: I remember when Yahoo had free POP access and forwarding, something they offered when they first started up. Who's to say that Gmail won't decide to go the way of Yahoo and ask for payment for this "premium" service. If that ends up being the case, you will be glad that Gmail is listed as working with Mail Forward. [alert admin]

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Tuesday, July 11 2006 @ 02:58 PM PDT

iSnip 1.4 (Mac OS X)

Great tool, but history makes is slooow; TIP: trash the history!

I've been using iSnip for several months now and it's just what I need. In fact, it's MORE than I need. I don't need the History at all, or I haven't needed it YET. In the meantime, yes, the History is at the top, and yes, you can get hung up on it when you try to get to whatever snippet folders you've created below that. And, sloooow, gosh, it was driving me nuts. Maybe it was just my computer. Going in to manage my snippets was a lesson in torture, with the Mac spinning wheel turning and turning. I finally decided to move my History file below the folders. I didn't know I could do it until I tried it, and it worked. Did that in the manage snippets area. That kept me from having to wait on the History, but it still didn't help the slowness when I wanted to manage my snippets. Since I never have used the History, I decided to just delete it. I figured if it screwed anything up, I could always reinstall. It didn't screw anything up and now this baby flies! I love it! I just insert my snippets and I don't wait on the History to do whatever it was doing. It's fast and way too good to be free. [alert admin]

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Tuesday, April 18 2006 @ 04:16 PM PDT

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