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User Name mlm--2008
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Total number of Feedback Posts: 9
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Emacs 22.1 (Mac OS X)
I have been using Emacs heavily since the mid-1980's on various platforms, and I still hack elisp extensively. Because everything I would run in X11 these days has been ported to native Cocoa versions I no longer run X11 on my Mac. I've tried other Emacs ports but I always come back to this one, and have been using it and its predecessors for years. It is an excellent port that is true to standard Emacs. It does not insist on intrusive UI interfaces or limitations, but it does provide UI conveniences if you want them. It behaves well as an OS X application. It includes a well thought out selection of libraries in its site-lisp. It is fast and completely stable. It's got some extra libraries to do Mac things -- even execute AppleScript code. I greatly appreciate the work that has gone into fitting this port into OS X and continuing to improve it. [alert admin]
Friday, April 11 2008 @ 10:05 AM PDT
OfficeTime 1.01 (Mac OS X)
Provides everything I need for advanced time tracking. I especially love the integration with iCal which works amazingly well! I've used many similar products but this one can't be beat. Report features, timer management, and flexible project tracking make for a very powerful combination for my web design and programming company. We share OfficeTime files from employee to employee without trouble. I would love to see some kind of central OfficeTime server for multi-user systems in the future, but I know how complicated that could get. Also I'd like to be able to project-specific categories and employees. Great stuff, keep it up! [alert admin]
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Monday, April 24 2006 @ 12:50 AM PDT
Logitech Control Center 1.6.2 (Mac OS X)
Keyboard scramble clarification
My description of the 501 keyboard scramble was inaccurate. Shifted keys on the top row are scrambled, but not all and not in a consistent pattern. Shift 1 through 5 are OK, shift-6 is &, shift-7 is ', then the rest are offset by one. [alert admin]
Monday, January 16 2006 @ 08:03 AM PST
Logitech Control Center 1.6.2 (Mac OS X)
After installing this version not only do advanced clicks not work, but shifted characters on the top row of my 501 keyboard are offset by one. For example, I type shift-9 and I get a right parenthesis instead of left. This is consistent across the whole row of keys. [alert admin]
Monday, January 16 2006 @ 07:26 AM PST
Logitech Control Center 1.6.2 (Mac OS X)
After installing this version not only do advanced clicks not work, but shifted characters on the top row of my 501 keyboard are offset by one. For example, I type shift-9 and I get a right parenthesis instead of left. This is consistent across the whole row of keys. [alert admin]
Monday, January 16 2006 @ 07:22 AM PST
Emacs 22.0.5 (Mac OS X)
This is a convenient packaging of the current FSF release, reasonably well integrated with Carbon (though not Aqua, which the standard release shouldn't attempt). It runs fine on Tiger, doesn't require X, contains all the lisp and info files, etc. I'm seeing some font problems where text at the end of a line disappears or appears in the wrong place -- I'm going to try other fonts and see what happens (all monospaced of course). If you want Emacs and don't want to evaluate alternative implementations, just download this, put it wherever you want, and use it. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, May 18 2005 @ 09:14 AM PDT
Wing IDE 2.0.1 (Mac OS X)
Elegant design, excellent facilities, & very flexible -- these guys got it right! 
I am a computer scientist with over 30 years of experience writing software and training, mentoring, and supporting software developers in advanced technologies. IDE's have always been a particular interest of mine; I've used many and with many languages over many years. Most of them are little more than demoware — awkward to use, ugly, and lacking support for many of a developer's routine actions.
The Wing IDE for Python gets it right. It is well-designed, attractive, flexible, and full-featured. It includes an editor, browsers, inspectors, a debugger, good documentation, etc. — all the facilities a Python developer needs. The arrangement, keybindings, and behavior of these facilities are quite configurable. The X11-based Mac implementation of this cross-platform application is nicely done, fitting comfortably within both the Unix and OS-X sides of the Mac environment.
This is a serious large-scale application whose price is justified by the richness and usability of the facilities it provides. It works well, looks good, and gives the Python developer everything needed to work effectively. Buy it.
— Mitchell L Model, MLM Consulting, Wayland, MA
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Wednesday, December 29 2004 @ 01:41 PM PST
AutoCompleter 1.0 (Mac OS X)
Don't be discouraged by its age -- it still works well, a testament to its stability and quality as well as OS X's. [alert admin]
Friday, August 29 2003 @ 04:23 AM PDT
CopyPaste X 1.5b2 (Mac OS X)
lot of time putting together pages of links, summarizing bits of technical documentation, listing resources, etc. which seems to involve lots of frequent copying and pasting between the many different browsers and editors I use. Honestly, CopyPaste makes this activity fluid whereas otherwise it would be nearly impossible. Having said that I am completely blown away by the improvement made by the new contextual menu capabilities -- in about two days I've forgotten how to use the various other mechanisms for pasting that I used to use, and I've mostly abandoned the numbered clipboard items in favor of the clip recorder, which I previously hadn't use much. If all CopyPaste did were provide a clipboard recorder and the paste contextual menu, it would be one of the biggest contributions to productivity ever offered to Mac power users who switch rapidly among a lot of different applications, and I didn't do anything to enable or learn about the new feature -- it just showed up and I started using it, about the ultimate level of usability, a strong contrast to some of CopyPaste's other somewhat strange and awkward interfaces. [alert admin]
Saturday, November 09 2002 @ 03:53 PM PST
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Conflict with Default Folder X - happy ending
And to save the rest of us with Default Folder (and why isn't that everyone?) gobs of time wasted repeating your debugging efforts. THANK YOU!
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Thursday, December 25 2003 @ 09:51 AM PST
Eudora autocomplete - explain?
Are you talking about Eudora's spelling correction facility with preference set to "check as you type" or about something else? Please elaborate!
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Wednesday, August 13 2003 @ 09:45 AM PDT
