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User Name nicoji
Member Since 2004-04-02
Total number of Feedback Posts: 5
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Last 10 Feedback Posts by nicoji [ Search for All ]
Art Museum Screen Saver 2005 (Mac OS X)
From Lascaux to Turner and the Impressionists 
The opening image of this compelling screensaver--Michelangelo’s Delphic sibyl from the Sistine Chapel--moves me each time I see it. From the sibyl’s beautiful, careworn face follows a riveting sampling of humanity's great and beloved art. The Art Museum Screensaver includes expected masterpieces (who could leave out the Mona Lisa from such a collection, for instance?), but it also includes what were, for me, surprises: horses painted on cave walls 10,000 years ago, each animal as alive as those in any Constable or Bierstadt. Every period of Western art from the Renaissance to the Impressionists is included (with the addition of the aforementioned brilliant example from the end of the last Ice Age). The screensaver also includes two Japanese masterworks. Impressive as this assemblage is, however, I feel that it is a release or two away from being truly noteworthy. The collection already spans time and culture: why not, then, make it what it already partly is: an educated attempt to reference the best of this world’s painted art? To that end, I encourage the editors at Cass Design to consider adding, in future releases, representative Indian, Persian, Anasazi, Egyptian, and Chinese paintings. Modern Western art should also not be absent from this collection; Cass Design sells another screensaver dedicated entirely to twentieth-century art, but surely room could be found in this collection for expressionist and abstract examples: perhaps one Pollock; at least one Picasso. And lastly, a screensaver such as this should download with an explicated bibliography. Even with these correctable omissions, however, this screensaver is a joy. I recommend it. [alert admin]
Tuesday, August 30 2005 @ 04:04 PM PDT
iKaleid 16082005 (Mac OS X)
Lovely. Five stars from me. [alert admin]
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Thursday, August 25 2005 @ 11:47 AM PDT
PicMark 1.2 (Mac OS X)
This little gem installed perfectly on my machine (running Tiger 10.4.1), and functioned perfectly from the start! I found the application interface to be intuitive, elegant, and it worked worked without error for me. I want to thank the developer for this fine--free--application that will help me, and a great many others, I'm sure, give our photographs an added bit of protection (watermark/copyright notice) online. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, May 31 2005 @ 06:17 PM PDT
PictureSwitch 1.0 (Mac OS X)
I love this little application. I know that I can change my desktop pictures using System Preferences--but this makes it so much faster, and it's nice to be able to change backgrounds quickly depending on project, mood, or sudden good news. I found that PictureSwitch could not access subfolders, so the one small accommodation I had to make for it was to copy all desktop backgrounds on my computer to a separate PictureSwitch folder so this program could access everything. PictureSwitch doesn't just show all available desktop backgrounds in its pull-down menu; it also adds information: it provides the title of the various backgrounds, not just a picture. System Preferences only displays the images. PictureSwitch is inexpensive, and it has worked perfectly for me from the start. Morris said to have nothing in our homes which we do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful. I find PictureSwitch to be both useful and beautiful. Thank you for this pleasant program. [alert admin]
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Thursday, October 14 2004 @ 03:29 AM PDT
SoundSource 1.0.3 (Mac OS X)
After a complete system reinstall, I decided to limit the third-party software I would download to my G4. I said goodbye to lots of apps that I loved, including this one. But I found I didn't want to live without SoundSource. It makes life just a little easier, works perfectly, and I love it. Five stars from me, guys, and thank you. [alert admin]
Monday, October 11 2004 @ 07:08 AM PDT
Last 10 Comments by nicoji [ Search for All ]
I collect kaleidoscopes, so this was a joy. I was amazed to watch the program grow in complexity and beauty the longer it ran. I'm keeping this one.
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Monday, April 19 2004 @ 07:57 PM PDT
