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User Name neonlight
Member Since 2003-03-19
Total number of Feedback Posts: 16
Total number of comments: 15
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SIDPlay 4.0 (Mac OS 9)
I’ve used SIDPlay for some years and I’m really glad the developer has done all the great work. I haven’t discovered any bugs so I highly recommend it to any fan of the Commodore 64 sound. Since Version 4 it was even better with a streamlined iTunes-alike interface and a usable playlist handling. Being already satisfied, I still have two feature requests: 1. The buttons to change the sub-songs should be a little bit bigger and maybe located outside the status display. 2. Maybe it’s possible to pre-render a SID song in AIFF or Apple-Losless format and then enable scrubbing at a timeline (move to any point of the song) 3. Sometimes I like to listen to a sub-song several times but after the song end is reached, SIDPlay continues with the next sub-song. So it would be great to either lock a sub song or to access the sub-songs via a disclosure triangle in the playlist, so the continue/repeat/shuffle settings apply to a sub-song as they do to a regular song. Thanks a lot! [alert admin]
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Sunday, March 08 2009 @ 03:10 PM PDT
Smultron 2.1.1 (Mac OS X)
Smultron is a decent app that was a pleasure to use with the first versions. While the three latest versions brought some niche feature improvements the interface got worse with every step. First we saw the nice icons to be deleted and being replaced with ugly ones, then the ugly ones were replaced with something better but they still couldn’t be compared with the first ones. The next version skipped some toolbar buttons from the toolbar (Syntax Colours, Line Wrap, Snippets, Projects) and now the last version exchanged the glossy, juicy and “nice looking in the dock” strawberry application icon with a flat and boring drawn version. I don’t know what’s up with the author of this app. He is great in coding a very well working editor but he shouldn’t try to be an icon artist. No one would complain if this was the first version of Smultron and the app never had better icons, but they were already there and are gone now! This forces me to still use 2.0.3 with the old, first version icons. Please, release the next version with all the old icons and all toolbar buttons again. [alert admin]
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Monday, September 04 2006 @ 06:53 PM PDT
Smultron 2.0 (Mac OS X)
I like to thank the developer very much for creating Smultron and for keeping it free. It’s really a wonderful editor to work with and it finally replaced an old (free) version of SubEthaEdit on my system. I’ve recently done some work on a website and all the features really help you in doing your work better and faster. As someone noticed before, I also really don’t like the new Icons. The old ones are really nice and I wonder why they had to be replaced by others. I’ve spent nearly an hour just to replace the new icons by the old one (the pdf conversion with transparencies tried to fool me). The old ones are also not perfect as you could not macht all to the new options but I like them better. So I really hope to see an icon-improved version. Otherwise I fully recomend this editor. [alert admin]
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Thursday, July 06 2006 @ 05:08 AM PDT
DivX for Mac 6.5 (Mac OS X)
As one poster already mentioned, the EULAS (End User Licence Agreements) you accept by installing this software are not very nice. You now only allow DivX.inc to install Toolbars or some add-stuff (Adware), they also could check some details of your system and the installed sofware. I’m not sure, if this stuff is already integrated or if the EULA is simply copied from the Windows installer, but it prevented me from installing the DivX package on my machine and I won’t install it on any machine I maintain. It’s really sad, that they try to bug you with such a licence as they have a really nice product now. [alert admin]
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Thursday, May 25 2006 @ 03:24 PM PDT
CocoModX 0.4.4 (Mac OS X)
Wow, I’m really impressed by this great MOD player. After some really bad years with MOD files on Mac OS X, this app rocks the house. My only hope is that there will be a universal binary soon so leading to a superior performance on Intel-Macs too. [alert admin]
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Saturday, February 25 2006 @ 03:19 PM PST
BitTorrent 4.1.2 (Mac OS X)
Worked fine, but there are alternatives 
BitTorrent worked fine for me but as others noted, it grabs a little bit too much CPU time from my computer. It has some nice options that other clients don’t have but I found out, that I don’t really need them. I also have seen some interface problems with the old version (the bar at the bottom of the window loses it’s skin). I have also tried Transmission and the new version is really a pleasure to use. It’s faster than BitTorrent, it uses very less CPU (3-5% on a 1.5 Ghz machine) and has a little memory footprint. Less options, better performance, nice interface and it’s free. Maybe you’ll give it a try. So I’d like to thank the developer for creating this very usable client for the Mac, but at the moment, the competition seems to be one step ahead. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, November 02 2005 @ 04:31 PM PST
OmniGraffle Pro 4.0rc1 (Mac OS X)
Having used OmniGraffle since version 2, I'm really impressed by the new improvements and features. As I'm mostly on a PowerBook with a widescreen display, I would prefer the seperate toolbar in a vertical style similar to Photoshop. Having the toolbar outside the document on the upper screen border, it needs too much space, especially, if you have paper layout (more high than wide). As others have mentioned, the Icon is really ugly. I still use the one from 2.0. It's not perfect but it doesn't burn your eyes. The text-button (labeled with a A) in the text palette doesn't look like a button that reveals the standard OS X font window. I'm not sure what's wrong with it, but I don't like the look. Otherwise OG looks and feels great and it's usefulness for my work has been much improved. I'm looking forward to the final version with a new manual (to find all the new features) and hopefully some new stencils (the one that are shown on your beta-website). Highly recommendable. [alert admin]
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Friday, August 26 2005 @ 02:35 PM PDT
Adium X 0.82 (Mac OS X)
Adium is the best IM on OS X and with this version still getting better. I haven't experienced stability problems, it still works fine for me. Now that www.adiumxtras.com/ is online again, everbody can configure Adium to her/his needs. Thanks for this piece of free software! [alert admin]
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Saturday, June 18 2005 @ 12:39 PM PDT
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Thanks to the developer for making this nice piece of softwar and for making it free. It works well on my PB 15" aluminium on 10.4.1 and in the case of having to deal with the trackpad it really helps a lot. The comfort of using a trackpad with this extension is much higher. But I noticed in the last two versions, that the installer of tries to connect to a server without notifying the user about this. LittleSnitch reported:"Installer wants to connect to ev1s-67-15-16-38.ev1servers.net on TCP port 80 (http)". As i hate spyware and any software that transmits data WITHOUT notifying the user, I'm not sure, if i would use it anymore. I hope the developer could clarify the situation and won't implement such a function in future projects. It's a shame, that often a user has to report about "phoning home" before developers remove it or say what it really does. It's not the best way to make a relationship of trust to your users. Mart°n P.S.: My rating reflects the nice functionality but as it behave now, i could not recomment the software until the situation about phoning home is clear. [alert admin]
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Sunday, May 29 2005 @ 11:25 AM PDT
Mellel Spotlight Plugin 1.0.2 (Mac OS X)
I have tried 1.0.1 on my machine and it worked fine as far as i could say. After installing this plugin Spotlight searched through my Mellel-Files and after typing some topics to the Spotlight menu, the Files were found. It would be nice, if the Developer could post something to the "what's new" section. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, May 24 2005 @ 01:13 PM PDT
Last 10 Comments by neonlight [ Search for All ]
This version is still very limited
A ripper is some software, that rips the video off the dvd and removes the css content protection (copy protection). With such a tool, you could duplicate copy protectet dvds with Toast or Popcorn (that otherwise won’t let you do this).
The famous and currently only working solution is MacTheRipper: http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/22715
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Monday, November 13 2006 @ 02:40 PM PST
Snapz Pro will not select an off screen frame. I have to use Snagit!
I guess you did not understand the benefit of Shareware and its “try before you buy” advantage. You could download SnapzPro, test it 30 days and if it fit your needs, you could buy it. Please don’t rate a software for features it doesn’t have. I couldn’t buy a car and rate it one star because it can’t fly. That’s not the fault of the car.
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Saturday, August 26 2006 @ 05:07 AM PDT
For SWF playback... use this app
In addition to VLC, the latest release of MPlayer also plays most FLVs nicely. There are no error messages here, but I’ve found two FLVs with a wrong audio/video sync when played with MPlayer (which are played fine in VLC or FLV viewer).
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Thursday, August 24 2006 @ 10:14 AM PDT
Maybe you should read the feature-list on the website to get an idea for what this software was. It’s made primarily to play Flash files (*.swf) and does this without the 5sec. limit. Only Flash-Videos (*.fla) which are used by YouTube, for example, have a 5sec. limit. The software itself is clearly labeled as SWF Movie player (and yes, every SWF-file is called a movie even if it is something different than you might expect from…
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Wednesday, August 23 2006 @ 10:56 PM PDT
I couldn’t see the behavior you’ve described. Docs To Go displays PDF documents in either 1:1 layout (with all columns, pictures and so on) or in a text stream layout (text only, reformatted for easy reading). It works very well for me (not super fast on a Tungsten | T) but it’s O.K. and much better than Adobe’s Palm Reader which renders the layout useless on some PDFs
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Wednesday, August 23 2006 @ 07:39 PM PDT
Here's a fix for those that don't like the new icons
Thanks a lot for those Icons. To be true, I also thought about packaging the old one and share them on the web but I'm glad that you’ve done this already.
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Tuesday, July 11 2006 @ 04:06 AM PDT
I completely agree with signata. I’ve also used the free Textpander for some time because it was a good value for money (and the free version still is). At 30 bucks it really isn’t anymore. It’s a nice small tool that could save you some time (or some more time, if your writing is slow) but nothing more. If you compare the $30 to… let’s say $25 you have to pay for GraphicConverter, TextExpander really…
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Thursday, June 29 2006 @ 04:22 PM PDT
Thanks a lot for this great review. It’s the best I’ve ever seen on VersionTracker and a very helpful one too.
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Wednesday, June 07 2006 @ 10:33 AM PDT
Excellent, but for one frustration
Apple’s Pages is a true OS X application and like ever other true OS X application (built with the cocoa framework and respecting the new “rules”) it doesn’t fake font faces that you haven’t installed. Other OS X apps like OmniGraffle or OmniOutliner, TextEdit, MacJournal, Mellel and some others also don’t fake styles. This is simply because computer generated bold and italic styles look bad compared to the real ones. In the pre OS X era…
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Wednesday, April 26 2006 @ 05:48 PM PDT
I don’t think that they will take money after this is out of beta. It’s paid by the fonts they sold via the built in Font Shop. I’m not sure about this but I could imagine that this works wonderful for them (similar to the iTunes Music store – you also don’t have to pay for iTunes) There isn’t a problem with storing your fonts in the main library folder, that’s what it was made for.…
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Thursday, September 29 2005 @ 10:46 AM PDT
