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User Name onan
Member Since 2002-06-25
Total number of Feedback Posts: 6
Total number of comments: 3
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Mailsmith 2.1.5 (Mac OS X)
I really wanted to like this application. However: • Only some configuration options are in the logical and standard place, Mailsmith->Preferences. Took me a while to find where account preferences are kept. (The completely arbitrary and needlessly separate Windows->Accounts.) • Options within the preferences window are an unnavigable mess. (Why is there a "Sending" item but not a "Receiving" one? Why are "Editor Defaults" and "Text Editing" two separate items, and how would a reasonable person know what to expect in each? Or "Mail Display" and "Text Colors"?) • The former problem is exacerbated by the lack of Spotlight support. • Speaking of text colors, why can I customize them only for individual-message display but not mailbox text display? (I tried selecting Text->Fonts & Tabs. Which does... absolutely nothing. Nice touch.) • Speaking of mailbox display, why can I not remove or drag completely closed the list of mailboxes in the main window? I'll open up a window for every mailbox I want to see, thankyouverymuch, but I refuse to sacrifice 15% of each of those windows to showing me a list about which I don't care. • Configuration dialogs are incredibly small and unresizable, filled with unusually small text that appears to ignore standard system font settings. (This, along with the lack of standard keybindings in text fields, are probably symptomatic of this being a Carbon application. About that transitional API, guys... it's about time to transition.) • Lastly... performance. I keep about thirty thousand messages in my inbox, with which other civilized mail clients have no difficulty. Mailsmith got through transferring less than a third of those the first time before its process grew to over two gigs of memory and I simply gave up and killed it. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, October 26 2005 @ 03:05 PM PDT
Ofx2Qif 0.1 (Mac OS X)
I'm in awe of your ability to create a "description" that is so completely free of information.
Oh, sure, you start off with disclosing absolutely nothing about what this tool does. But that's old hat; this tactic of creating completely useless documentation was pioneered years ago. Your real masterstroke, though, lay in managing to repeat your same meaningless non-information three times, in at least slightly different context, still without giving away any hints as to what the hell it is.
I am humbled by your unprecedented abilities of non-communication. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, June 09 2004 @ 02:31 PM PDT
SlimServer 5.1 (Mac OS X)
Just got my squeezebox today, and have only spent a bit playing with it. But it appears to be using the composer tag (as opposed to the artist tag) when browsing "by artist". This means that many items show up under completely different names than the band names, often in many different permutations for different combinations of band members who authored to each individual song. I see some (unexplained) mention of using the composer tag in the changelog for 5.1. But this use seems... just wrong. I don't see anything in the web or inline settings that appear to allow changing it to use artist tags; am I missing something? [alert admin]
Saturday, February 14 2004 @ 02:11 AM PST
PithHelmet 0.7.2a (Mac OS X)
This product changes Safari from "great potential, but tragically flawed" to "the best browser available on any platform." I don't know why Apple didn't do this, but we're all greatly indebted to the guy who took it upon himself to cover for them. And this release shows that he's struck the correct balance between not breaking your system and not breaking his tool: it defaults to not working with versions of Safari he hasn't seen, but updates catch it up within a day. And, if you're impatient in the meantime, it's one unobscured plist edit away. Take a few minutes and give him five bucks. Or fifty. He's more than made your life that much better. [alert admin]
Tuesday, February 03 2004 @ 12:48 PM PST
realThreat 1.0 (Mac OS X)
Why would the not belong here? It's software, whether or not it contains content with which you agree. Do you feel that things like the bible-reading software that come through periodically are inappropriate because some people disagree with its content? [alert admin]
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Friday, January 23 2004 @ 01:11 PM PST
Hackpose 1.0 (Mac OS X)
In what way is this supposed to be a useful description of what the product does? I wonder if it would be possible to find a less specific and informative term on which to hang your entire product description than "blob"? Perhaps sparing two or three sentences on telling me what the hell it does would be a worthwhile investment of your time? Or maybe something really crazy like a screenshot? Barring even the vaguest hint about the purpose, I can't say I'm dying to install the software just because it does "something neat". [alert admin]
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Monday, October 27 2003 @ 01:23 PM PST
Last 10 Comments by onan [ Search for All ]
> RyanAndFriends is a name that covers many things and it wont be changed anytime soon.Actually, it's a name that means precisely nothing, as does your description. "Many things"? Has it perhaps ever crossed your mind to give even the tiniest hint as to what these "things" are?
The one and only part of the name or description that is semantically significant at all, "operating system" is completely inaccurate. Your name actually contains negative information,…
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Thursday, August 25 2005 @ 03:04 PM PDT
Waitwaitwait. You're favorably comparing the mozilla project, which spent five years going from a mostly-working browser to an almost-mostly-working browser, before deciding that they had the wrong strategy all along and are now starting over again, to safari, which very many people have considered best of breed from the day it was released, and has seen regular updates since? Whether you prefer mozilla or safari, the idea of lauding mozilla for its speed of development is…
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Monday, February 02 2004 @ 07:58 PM PST
Politically Slanted Garbage and anti-Bush
Extra points for the quotes implying that this might not be a thing. You're thinking maybe it's a person or place masquerading as a thing?
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Friday, January 23 2004 @ 01:14 PM PST
