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User Name mikirby
Member Since 2007-06-12
Total number of Feedback Posts: 22
Total number of comments: 16
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xGestures 1.73 (Mac OS X)
Good but could use improvement in handling gestures
There's a few things this program doesn't do well, all related to tracking the mouse. 1.) It seems to track mouse movement on screen, not your movement on the trackpad, so if the pointer collides with the edge of the screen during the gesture, the gesture may not work because you lose subsequent movements in the direction of the screen edge. 2.) It doesn't allow consecutive movements in the same direction. For example, I want to create a new email by drawing an "E" with my finger - which would be down, right, right, right. It doesn't allow that... only down, right. 3.) It can't handle diagonal movement. I want to draw an "X" for Cut and a "W" for "Close Window". It interprets the diagonal lines as stream of consecutive movements up, right, left and down (depending on the direction), and never interprets them the same way twice, so they don't work. Drawing an X or a W using boxy, up-down-left-right-only strokes with right-angle turns between them works, but is unnatural and much slower that simply drawing them as I am used to writing them. In fact, I realize this is tough from a programming perspective, but ideally it should recognize circles too... the circle or loop is the most basic shape, the easiest to draw with a finger, and is a natural control gesture. 4.) The "gesture timeout" is a good start, but what really needs to happen is, as soon as it recognize that your current gesture couldn't possible match any of the gestures you have defined, it should timeout the gesture immediately. Is it is, I have it activated by a keystroke, and if I bumble a gesture, I have to either hit the keystroke or wait for the timeout before I can try again. As soon as it's bumbled, I should be able to try again. 5.) Similarly, there should be a user option to allow it to act on any gesture as soon as it's recognized as a valid one. I don't like having to hit my keystroke to both start and stop gesturing. I realize not everybody will want this, as it will prevent any gestures that contain the same movements as other shorter gestures, but it should at least be an option for those who do want it. 6.) Since my trackpad hardware (I'm on a macbook) recognizes two-finger scroll wheel emulation, I'd like xGestures to recognize two-finger gestures too. Rather than hit a key to begin a gesture, I'd like the option to have it automatically consider any two-finger movement as a gesture and any one-finger movement as ordinary mouse control (which would end any previous gesture), so I don't have to hit a keystroke to start and end gestures. Alternatively, I'd like "two fingers" to be an option for any movement within a gesture. IE, I'd like to be able to define a gesture as "one finger right, two fingers right, one finger right". 7.) It should recognize a tap on my trackpad as a control gesture, and even be able to tell between a tap with one finger and a tap with two fingers. I think that about covers it. This is a great program, it's just not all the way there yet - get this better control implemented and it'll be worth far more than the low, low $5 currently being asked. Perhaps there needs to be an "xGestures Pro" for more money but with these advanced features? [alert admin]
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Wednesday, May 28 2008 @ 01:43 PM PDT
PictureSync 1.8r15 (Mac OS X)
This version does not have the problem I complained about below, but it refuses to upload all my pictures to flickr - it tells me that a run of pictures in the middle of my set have "failed" but gives me no more information. The included documentation is no help whatsever. I keep trying to upload these same pictures and it keeps failing without any further information, end of story. Since they were in the middle of a huge set, I have to delete all the uploaded pictures and reupload them all again using some other program in order to keep them in the right order on Flickr. So trying to upload them with Picturesync was a complete waste of my time. [alert admin]
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Saturday, March 15 2008 @ 12:10 PM PDT
Cyndicate 1.1 (Mac OS X)
Full featured, reliabe, I like it
This feed reader does everything I want a feed reader to do. Easy, intuitive, I ike it. One criticism: It says it's a 21 day demo, but on day 18, it starts giving you nag screens every 30 seconds, making the app functionally unusable. [alert admin]
Tuesday, February 26 2008 @ 05:44 PM PST
Shrook 2.62 (Mac OS X)
Confusing, ugly and poorly documented - can't remove items!
Right out of the box, this butt-ugly app has got me wasting time and scratching my head. Near as I can tell, you can either set it so items disappear when they drop off the original feed (which means you can miss items if you don't read regulary or don't know how oftem the feed is updated) or they disappear NEVER EVER EVER and there's no way to get rid of them. There's a setting for "Expire items manually" but nowhere does it say how to do this! There's an option called "Expire New Items" but all this does is change the status fo the items. I need to be able to remove items once I've read them! The Help menu just gives a vague FAQ and there doesn't appear to be support forums anywhere online. [alert admin]
Monday, February 04 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
PictureSync 1.8r13 (Mac OS X)
Broken "upgrade"! DO NOT DOWNLOAD! 
Thi s "upgrade" version is completely broken. All it does is show a dialog box over and over again that says "Where is GrowlHelperApp.App" like very 5 seconds. DO NOT OVERWRITE YOUR WORKING VERSION OF PICTURESYNC WITH THIS ONE! You have been warned. One star for posting this downgrade and removing my ability to use this crucial program at all. [alert admin]
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Sunday, October 28 2007 @ 10:55 AM PDT
RiffWorks Standard 2.1 (Mac OS X)
Unlike every single other OS X audio program under the sun, it cannot output sound through a Griffin iMic. It'll recognize the iMic, and allow you to set it up as an audio device, and the input meters show that it can accept input through it, but as far as output all you'll get is stone silence. Pretty stupid, if you ask me. [alert admin]
Thursday, October 04 2007 @ 08:52 PM PDT
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Great program if you like losing your work
I think my favorite thing about it is the way that even though my movie played fine in MediaEdit, when I saved it, the second half of the video was totally blank and I lost both all the work I had done and the original movie I was editing. [alert admin]
Tuesday, October 02 2007 @ 04:13 PM PDT
HyperEngine-AV 1.6 (Mac OS X)
No documentation, does nothing but crash - don't waste your time!
This program crashes every 2 minutes under OS X 10.4.9. Do not waste your time like I did. It also has no documentation, and the help menu points to a screen saying "help will go here". Total junk. [alert admin]
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Monday, October 01 2007 @ 12:42 AM PDT
MediaEdit 3.0a3 (Mac OS X)
All download links both here and on the developer site do not work - error messages and strange behavior in Safari running under OS X 10.4.9. No usable files were able to be downloaded. [alert admin]
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Sunday, September 30 2007 @ 11:59 PM PDT
WireTap Pro 1.3.2 (Mac OS X)
Works once, then does nothing but cras - developer instructions not helpful
It worked the first time I used it, then after that all it does when I try to start it is beep at me three times and quit. There's nothing about this in any of the documentations. I went to the developer support forums where several people report this same problem, and all they give you are reinstallation instructions that don't solve the problem, you just waste your time reinstalling and reinstalling and reinstalling and it never works until you finally give up in frustration. Waste of my time. It burns me up. Software like this shouldn't be posted. [alert admin]
Tuesday, September 11 2007 @ 11:32 PM PDT
Last 10 Comments by mikirby [ Search for All ]
8.) Keyboard activation should allow you to star t a gesture with a double-press of a modifier key all by itself, as Quicksilver allows you to do - I bring up my Quicksilver window by pressing "Control" twice, I'd like to be able to start a gesture in a similar way.
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Wednesday, May 28 2008 @ 01:46 PM PDT
UPDATE, several months later: I have so many problems with this software, and the developer has been so unresponsive to bug reports, that it actually makes me ANGRY to see someone claiming that this is something better than a bug-filled piece of abandonware. Gotta go - off to restart my computer again to get rid of the 3GB of swapfiles that this horrible program deposited on my hard drive in the last 18 hours.
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Wednesday, February 06 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
Other users report the problem too
Sorry, "MemoryStick" not "RamStick". I also forgot to mention, is you search the official soulseex forums, run by the developer, for the word "Memory", you'll find still more people complaining about the problem. See http://forums.slsknet.org/ipb/index.php?showtopic=9514&hl=memory
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Wednesday, December 19 2007 @ 05:58 PM PST
Forgot to mention... I had ramstick open, and checked the number of new VM swapfiles this morning... Soulseex had generated 28 new swapfiles overnight.
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Wednesday, December 19 2007 @ 04:53 PM PST
Any number of factors could influence this. Perhaps you have a huge hard drive with 30GB free space, so you don't notice. Perhaps you quit Soulseek every day and reopened again the next day, instead of leaving it open and downloading. Here's how you can see the problem yourself: Download "MemoryStick", a small freeware application that alerts you as new memory swwapfiles are written, and leave soulseek open & downloading for a few days. Also do…
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Wednesday, December 19 2007 @ 04:51 PM PST
Developer fixed it within hours - nice work!
Apparently the developer jumped on the case and fixed th eproblem within hours of my submitting feed back to him indicating the problem... nice work! Looks like this app will be worth supporting after all. Thanks!
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Sunday, November 25 2007 @ 11:28 PM PST
Even worse than I thought! REQUIRES APERTURE TO EVEN RUN!
Well, I installed "Growl" (against my will) just to try and use this program - and now it wants Aperture! I use Microsoft Expressions Media (iView) and they expect me to cough up $$$ to buy Aperture just so I can use PictureSync with Expressions Media! No f'in way! Nice work, PictureSync, you've lost a customer with this lousy downgrade! Goodbye!
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Sunday, October 28 2007 @ 11:27 AM PDT
Wrong answer. If there is a "surprisingly simple way" to fix a common, catastrophic problem that completely prevents use of the program, it should be in the documentation, you shouldn't have to write support and have to wait for a reply. Unless you're talking about the instructions to remove the prefs and kernel extension and app folder and reinstall which they list repeatedly in their forums, which does nto fix the problem as promised.
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Tuesday, September 11 2007 @ 09:43 PM PDT
Wrong answer. If there is a "surprisingly simple way" to fix a common, catastrophic problem that completely prevents use of the program, it should be in the documentation, you shouldn't have to write support and have to wait for a reply. Unless you're talking about the instructions to remove the prefs and kernel extension and app folder and reinstall which they list repeatedly in their forums, which does nto fix the problem as promised.
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Tuesday, September 11 2007 @ 09:38 PM PDT
Wrong answer. If there is a "surprisingly simple way" to fix a common, catastrophic problem that completely prevents use of the program, it should be in the documentation, you shouldn't have to write support and have to wait for a reply. Unless you're talking about the instructions to remove the prefs and kernel extension and app folder and reinstall which they list repeatedly in their forums, which does nto fix the problem as promised.
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Tuesday, September 11 2007 @ 09:31 PM PDT
