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Total number of Feedback Posts: 101
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WireTap Anywhere 1.0.1 (Mac OS X)
How does this compare to the excellent (and free) Jack? [alert admin]
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Thursday, August 14 2008 @ 01:02 PM PDT
Default Folder X 3.0.6 (Mac OS X)
I am the poster who recently mentioned how the CPU cycles used by Default Folder X would gradually creep up (not a memory leak as a more recent poster said). I am very happy to report that the problem has been fixed. (I am also the guy who bugged the developers about this small problem.) I have been a very happy user of DF for many years and have to say that whenever I sit down at someone else's Mac who doesn't have DF installed I find it almost impossible to use--DF is an essential add-on to OS X, so essential that without it I have to wonder if the Mac really is that easy to use 8^). If the universe told me that I could have only one add-on for my Mac, this would be the one that I would pick. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, July 17 2007 @ 08:40 PM PDT
Default Folder X 3.0.4 (Mac OS X)
Default Folder X has a pernicious problem whereby the background process, Default Folder X BG, uses more and more processor cycles the more you use it. This processor load is present even when you are not using DF. It's like a memory leak only with processor cycles. Check it out using Activity Monitor. When you first launch DF, it's well-behaved, showing 0.00 % CPU. But as you use it, for me typically a few days, that CPU usage creeps higher and higher until it is 3% or 5%. Quitting the program and restarting it starts the ramping-up process over at 0% again. I don't know how high it actually might go. I've communicated with the developers--they have been interested but have not been able to fix the problem. [alert admin]
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Thursday, June 21 2007 @ 03:05 AM PDT
Shiira 2.1 (Mac OS X)
Thumbnails should not be at the bottom of the window
Shiira is a very nice browser but with one huge flaw—the decision to put the page thumbnails at the bottom of the window instead of the side. This is wrong for a couple of reasons. It forces you to scroll more since less information is displayed. You could make your window wider and regain the total area. However, computer screens are almost universally wider than they are tall which in itself is a problem because the readability of text is improved when the columns are rather narrow as opposed to being very wide. Wide columns force more eye travel and cause you to struggle to find the next line when returning to the left side of the column. I think that Shiira is a Japanese project so maybe they use tall screens whereby putting the thumbnails at the bottom makes sense. So maybe there should be an option to place the thumbnails. Omniweb is very successful with its thumbnails on the side (in a drawer). [alert admin]
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Wednesday, June 20 2007 @ 03:51 PM PDT
Intuit Quicken 2006 R6 (Mac OS X)
Quicken is one of those perennial turds of the software world. All you have to do is read a few user comments for any version here on Versiontracker. It is in the same class as such notable classics as RealPlayer. Intuit owes their existence to the Mac and has crapped all over their customers ever since moving to Windows. The software crashes but yet gets more and more new features (aka Microsoftitus). I just found out that the 2004 version was discontinued and the only notice I get is when trying to connect to my bank saying, "Quicken was not able to complete your request at this time. The next time you go online for this financial institution, Quicken will attempt to re-send your original request. If the problem continues, contact your financial institution. [OL-293]." Yea, right--it's the bank's damn problem that they discontinued supporting my version of their product. You would think that somewhere in the never-ending stream of pop-ups and dialog boxes that they could have bothered to put one or two telling me to upgrade instead of making me go through their poorly-made web site for an hour to discover that I now owe Intuit another damn $49.95 for a whole new batch of bugs. [alert admin]
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Monday, May 14 2007 @ 03:37 AM PDT
xScope 1.5 (Mac OS X)
Several bugs and missing feature 
This program looks real pretty and everything but a very few minutes of use reveals some bugs. I use two monitors in a vertical configuration (which also seems to trip up the nice programmers at Apple) on a Powerbook. Guides either do not appear or appear without the controls so that they can't be moved etc. When horizontal and vertical rulers are displayed, they are perpetually joined with no way to separate them. I first purchased the ARTIS Screen Tools package which had a different set of bugs. I then popped for the upgrade for an additional fee hoping that the problems would go away, but instead I got a different set of bugs. If these bugs are addressed it would be a 5-star program, but the obviousness of them makes me wonder how much care went into making the program work correctly versus making it pretty. And the bad experience from upgrading from the older program accompanied by dead e-mail addresses when I tried to complain directly about the older program, along with a confusing dual set of web pages for the older program which is still sold and for xCode, leave me eager to go have a beer. The purchasing experience was not all that easy either. [alert admin]
Saturday, May 12 2007 @ 09:02 PM PDT
PDF Studio 4.30 (Mac OS X)
Beware--there is a Windows version. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, April 11 2007 @ 02:23 PM PDT
Sticky Windows 2.0 (Mac OS X)
Does it hack application memory?
Does this thing modify application memory like Unsanity Windowshade? [alert admin]
Friday, April 06 2007 @ 01:49 PM PDT
Mellel 2.2 (Mac OS X)
Still little support for technical writers
I can't use Mellel for serious writing in my field because support for common requirements of technical writers is still lacking. A short list is: (1) Mentions allowed in body text so that figures, tables, equations, etc. can be auto-numbered wherever they are mentioned. (2) Baseline adjustment for equations pasted from other programs. I worked with the folks at Math Magic and I think they've done their part. (3) A bit of automatic layout of figure graphics, e.g., a figure goes to the top of the page where it is first mentioned unless it causes the mention itself to get shoved to the next page, in which case the figure goes on the next page. I'm still looking for a word processor that approximates the late, great Fullwrite Professional on which I did my Ph.D. dissertation around 1990, and it did all of this and more with ease. [alert admin]
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Monday, March 19 2007 @ 05:53 PM PDT
iClip 4 (Mac OS X)
Usefulness of 4.0 relative to 3.7
Is 4.0 actually more useful than 3.7 or is it all just eye candy? Using non-standard UI elements takes more memory. The content-display areas look smaller just to accommodate the fancy GUI. It looks like to me the only reason to upgrade is because it's Universal Binary, and I don't have an Intel processor. Comments? [alert admin]
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Wednesday, January 31 2007 @ 01:17 PM PST
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Still Not ready for prime time !!
Ignore this comment. It seems to have been placed by a kid or a sociopath or perhaps a mentally retarded person. Clue 1 is that he/she gives no reason for his/her statement. No one else who spends five minutes with OmniWeb would make such a statement.
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Thursday, December 14 2006 @ 07:20 PM PST
Still Not ready for prime time !!
I would be helpful if you could write a little bit about why you gave this a low rating; most people who have used it love the program. And it has been a "product" for many years. Omni is providing a slight tweak to a previous version which most definitely is a "product."
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Thursday, December 07 2006 @ 12:49 PM PST
You seriously need to run Disk Utility. I had a friend who was having mysterious Keychain problems (among other odd stuff) and Disk Utility found an unfixable (to it) disk problem. Disk Warrior did, however, fix it.
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Wednesday, November 29 2006 @ 08:51 PM PST
"Install" is not a noun.
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Wednesday, April 26 2006 @ 01:27 PM PDT
"I think he means that you can't (apparently) re-arrange icons in pathfinder windows."
That's exactly right. Apple and other UI interface experts have strenuously made the point that a file manager have a mode in which the user gets to put things where he/she wants. You know, just like the real world. But with Path Finder, you can't go looking for things where you last left them, you have to remember the name of the thing…
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Sunday, January 15 2006 @ 02:16 PM PST
"I think he means that you can't (apparently) re-arrange icons in pathfinder windows."
That's exactly right. Apple and other UI interface experts have strenuously made the point that a file manager have a mode in which the user gets to put things where he/she wants. You know, just like the real world. But with Path Finder, you can't go looking for things where you last left them, you have to remember the name of the thing…
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Sunday, January 15 2006 @ 02:13 PM PST
"quite expensive?" The price listed here on Versiontracker is 32.90 Euros. Maybe that's wrong, or else you have a weird expectation of what stuff should cost.
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Monday, January 02 2006 @ 03:35 PM PST
I haven't tried the software, but based on the fact that the reviewer didn't bother to discover the "Process" menu item, I'm guessing that he/she didn't spend much time with the program. As far as the obviousness of inventions, I have found over and over and over that people will say that a new idea is obvious right after they've first seen it explained--what a coincidence. This looks like an innovative program, so let's wait for…
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Wednesday, December 14 2005 @ 03:05 PM PST
Vague comments like this aren't helpful. Please make specific comments or remove your review.
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Monday, December 12 2005 @ 02:36 PM PST
Omni's BANE: crowding out Apple's Clock in Menu Bar
Bullshit. Move your clock to the far right side of the screen. If you were to use a few other programs other than a web browser, you would find that others also crowd the menu bar far worse than Omniweb. And _none_ that I have seen actually overwrite the clock if it is on the far right side.
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Monday, December 12 2005 @ 02:35 PM PST
