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Total number of Feedback Posts: 7
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Coda 1.1 (Mac OS X)
1.1 crashing (hard), maybe related to SVN? 
Not so sure about the 'great product support' because I have not heard anything back from Panic about my 1.1 crashes yet. The program seems to go down whenever I update an open (though not 'dirty') file via SVN. It has also crashed randomly when left open overnight. I really like this tool, but I am back to using BBEdit until it is fixed. [alert admin]
Thursday, December 13 2007 @ 02:34 PM PST
FontLab Studio 5.0 (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X)
I wanted to use FontLab for a (non-Roman) font I had an idea for, but it is tremendously expensive for the hobbyist. Instead, you might try Font Forge, a free alternative. It requires X11, and is not a 'clean mac program' but it is very capable, and supports a huge number of font formats. It can convert between formats and generate bitmaps, as well. http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/ (Not the developer, just a happy user.) [alert admin]
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Sunday, December 18 2005 @ 11:38 PM PST
iBeeZz 2.4.1 (Mac OS X)
This program worked well when I bought it, but then started to have intermittent problems: the daemon often crashed, so alarms would just stop working. My emails also went unanswered, and so I wrote a cron job to keep it working. As of the latest system update, it has simply stopped working altogether. Do not buy the program. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, February 22 2005 @ 12:59 AM PST
ListSaver 1.0 (Mac OS X)
I have only used ListSaver once, but it does what is says. I moved the disk with all my music on it to a local server, and iTunes couldn't find the files on the mounted shared volume. Adding the files to iTunes was no problem, but that would've meant doubling my Library size and having a lot of garbage left in there... even worse, I would've lost all my playlists. After making a backup my my iTunes Music Library file, I used ListSaver to save all the playlists (save all is the only option, no list-by-list support). Then I removed all the files (and playlists) from iTunes, and added the files from their new location. That itself was probably a good house-cleaning, since iTunes' Remove Missing Tracks script times out with libraries of my size (18455 songs after the new import). Finally, I used ListSaver again to restore the playlists. It matched the songs in the playlists with their new counterparts. The annoying shareware message, every three playlists, was reasonable. There were some files that it didn't find (which I had intentionally deleted); it told me to look in the log for these, but I couldn't see the log from within the file (it is in the application folder). Only one major glitch: playlist names which in non-Roman characters (in this case, Japanese and Chinese) were restored incorrectly. This was easy to change with 15 lists, but would've been a pain with more. Overall I am happy, and at $6 I will buy it for future housecleaning. However, I would like a couple of additional features: * list-by-list backup/restore * non-Roman (UTF-8) character support * better status information, e.g. playlist/track names as they are being saved/restored * show the log from within the file [alert admin]
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Monday, February 23 2004 @ 10:16 PM PST
nikotel4mac 1.93 (Mac OS X)
I just could not get V1.93 to work for audio, and I noticed a note about some 'X-TEN' software on the Nikotel site. One quick Google search later, I discovered that this company (http://www.xten.net/) also has free VOIP software that works on OS X. It even works with your already-existing Nikotel account! The instructions in the Nikotel FAQ on how to set up X-TEN are not very clear (I get the feeling that everything about Nikotel is translated by a non-native speaker who is an uncommunicative coder even in his/her own language). If you need additional help getting it running, perhaps I can assist. [alert admin]
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Saturday, February 21 2004 @ 06:30 AM PST
nikotel4mac 1.93 (Mac OS X)
1.93 loads and logs in, but no microphone
I used v1.91 while living in China to call the US: it was fantastic. The lag was huge, but I got used to talking like a WWII radio operator. Since I came back, I got a new machine with Panther and had to upgrade to the latest version of Nikotel, 1.93. It loads and lets me log in, and I can make calls: but no audio input I choose in System Preferences > Sound is recognized! Of course this makes the program pretty much unusable: I can hear my girlfriend in China saying "hello? hello?" but that gets old fast. Does anyone have a link to (or installer package for) version 1.92? It is nowhere to be found on the Nikotel site. [alert admin]
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Saturday, February 21 2004 @ 05:13 AM PST
QTConvert 1.2 (Mac OS X)
would love to see .m4b support
I saw an earlier message regarding .aa files, and this is probably in the same category. I'd love to see .m4b support which is the format of the audiobooks on the iTMS. [alert admin]
Thursday, February 05 2004 @ 06:02 PM PST
Last 10 Comments by oliver langan [ Search for All ]
I used Synchronize Pro for several years, and it got better over time without breaking anything. It is much more powerful and configurable than SuperDuper! and some other backup software I have used, and I don't think that $100 is an unfair price. That being said, I got tired of paying the $50 forced-upgrade cost time and time again, so I switched to SuperDuper! for a daily full-disk backup, and rsync for all other synchronization…
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Wednesday, October 18 2006 @ 12:54 PM PDT
"The Apple way to launch Safari is to click on its icon in the Dock." Well, sure, for Safari. What about for Bluetooth File Exchange? That would be: 1) open a Finder Window 2) click on the Applications sidebar 3) click/double-click on the Utilities folder 4) double click on Bluetooth File Exchange. Compared to that, control-space + BFE + return seems pretty easy: it is definitely faster. And my dock stays clean, for applications I don't use often. But…
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Friday, August 11 2006 @ 11:42 PM PDT
