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User Name pdxmrmac
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Spaces.. Spaces.. Spaces.. 1.0.1 (Mac OS X)
This is a wonderful tweak and I like the idea greatly. And it works well on my MacBook Pro, but on my G5 it is useless. Come on, I know that someday PowerPC machines will truly be dead, but there are many newer PPC machines out there that can surely run this code. Please make it a universal binary as soon as possible. I read the notice that you don't have Leopard on a PCC, but many of us do and we could test it for you. I would hate to get used it this on my MBP and then get frustrated when I had to revert back to the default behavior on my G5. I would love to recommend it and use it ON ALL of my machines, and I will once it is PowerPC and Intel compatible. [alert admin]
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Sunday, November 18 2007 @ 08:19 AM PST
Eudora 8.0.0b1 (Mac OS X)
Few love Eudora more than me. While it is old and creaky in places, sports an outdated UI ,and lacks the modernity of Mac OS X, it is fast, stable, incredibly simple, and does the job with aplomb (as long as you don't need HTML email). To call version 8 beta an improvement or even give it the name EUDORA is not only a travesty, but insulting. Is this a marketing joke, do the "developers" think we are that stupid? All they did was take the Penelope plug-in, which has been stuck in the .1 alpha stage for the better part of a year, and attach it to a current version of Thunderbird. The last time I checked, .1 alpha meant early testing and not very feature full or stable. To translate that, to calling the product a full version change (ala 8.0.0) is a farce at least and dishonest at worst. "Classic" Eudora and this imposter have very little in common. If I wanted to use Thunderbird, I would, but I use Eudora for the fact that it is Eudora. It would have been far better to release the product when it was actually somewhat finished. I appreciate that the developers are trying to keep an old dinosaur from dying and bring it back to relevance, but this is worse that just letting it go to final sleep in the software graveyard. I will stick with version 6.2.4, and while I will keep track of the project, and pray for something better, I am not counting on it. At this point the credibility of the project is in tatters. They are going to have to do one heck of a job to restore my faith. We need a new Eudora that keeps the beautiful simplicity, speed, power, and incredible stability of the classic Eudora while adding a modern interface, good html email support (blech!), much better (modern) SMTP support, and a host of other features that never happened while others were innovating. In more and more cases, I use Apple Mail with customers, and I try to eliminate that hellacious Entourage (though its constant failures sure keep me busy) .Though, those still happy using Eudora, I encourage to continue forward. If it works why bother changing. How many PowerPC applications are so good that they still work great on Intel processors? Not many, and classic Eudora is one of them. Until I find something better, I will stay with classic Eudora, and this new 8.0.0 sham is not only NOT better, it is laughable. Try again. [alert admin]
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Monday, September 03 2007 @ 08:13 PM PDT
Spark 3.0b2 (Mac OS X)
I LOVE THIS TOOL - Iit is essential, can't live without it! 
I have been looking for this exact utility for YEARS in both the commercial-shareware and amongst the freeware offering. I bought and used a few in that time, but gave them all up for various reasons. However, with Spark, it was LOVE at first sight AND it is FREE! Wow. I put it on all of my customer's machines, so I can trip the same apps, scripts, and folder commands on every machine, even over the phone with a nervous customer. Pure bliss. This tool has saved me so much time and it is fast becoming my number one favorite add-on. [alert admin]
Thursday, March 22 2007 @ 06:01 PM PDT
Folder Icon Maker 2.0 (Mac OS X)
I have tried the rest, and while this is not the best (haven't found that one yet), it is clean, easy, and quick. It works very much like the tool I once used in OS 9. I don't need the Quark Xpress of Icon tools, I just wanted a TextEdit. IT WORKS VERY WELL IN THIS MODE! Love it. I wish it did a few more things, but I am not complaining. The price is right. A few interface bugs appear from time to time, but they are visual only. Just ignore them. The final icon will still be fine. [alert admin]
Thursday, October 05 2006 @ 08:11 AM PDT
Folder Icon Maker 2.0 (Mac OS X)
If you have tried to register any NiteOwl products, you may have noticed the very unhelpful, "please go to http://www/kagi.com/" like going to one of the largest e-commerce software sites would somehow magically transform you to the exact page necessary. I tried in vain to actually find the specific page with no luck and even broke down and contacted the developer WITH NO RESPONSE! I could not believe that they did not want to get paid. So, years and months later, tired once again of the nag requests, I went looking again. Kagi now has a new search engine that makes it easier to find products from the main page. It still wasn't easy, but I finally found the page. Here it is: http://order.kagi.com/cgi-bin/store.cgi?storeID=NME [alert admin]
Thursday, October 05 2006 @ 08:08 AM PDT
PrefsMenu 1.2.4 (Mac OS X)
Tiger usage tip found by accident…
I love this old but excellent tool, but it seems to be forgotten by its developer. I can't complain, because it was free and still works well enough in Tiger. Custom icons for Apple Pref Panes no longer work, but third party icons still appear. It's annoying from an aesthetic point of view, but otherwise is not a big deal. Apple must have moved the icon location for their pref panes in Tiger. Changing preference options does not see to work, but I stumbled across the solution. Make your changes (which will seem to be ignored) and then restart. Whatever you chose will be in effect after restarting the computer. [alert admin]
Sunday, March 12 2006 @ 03:42 PM PST
PrefsMenu 1.2.4 (Mac OS X)
Good product and work around in Tiger
I've used this little life saver since the beginning and I love that it is free. I have installed it on all of my customer's machines and several now can't live without it. When Tiger came out and I realized that PrefsMenu was somewhat broken, I contact the developer, who quickly responded that a new version was on the way. That was way back in May. Still for a free product, I can't complain too much. PrefsMenu still works in Tiger well enough: selecting an icon still opens the associated preference pane; however, most icons are generic (primarily the Apple icons), and finally the "Sort by…" and "Tiny icons" selections do not seem to work. However, I have pleasantly discovered that logging out and logging back in (restarting works too), will change the option that seemed to not work before. So, select the change from the menu and then log out. Works every time. I sure hope a new version arrives soon. [alert admin]
Saturday, December 31 2005 @ 05:10 PM PST
Pinki 1.1 (Mac OS X)
I can't believe no one has left a wonderful review of this product yet. The last two reviews did not do the product justice. Read them, do they make sense at all? There are drugs for these kinds of problems. I digress… This product is an amazing tool. It does exactly what I always wanted in a preview icon tool. I had dowloaded everything under the sun and until Pinki, I was never satisfied with the other tools. Not only does Pinki create previews and save me oodles of time, it does it better than I could have dreamed of and in the form of a Menu Extra. I couldn't be happier. This guy should get the freaking best freeware of the year award. Simple, but elegant. Bravo! [alert admin]
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Saturday, December 17 2005 @ 04:00 PM PST
HP OfficeJet G series 4.7.6 (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X)
HP should go take a long walk off a short pier 
I am sick and tired of having to wait for new drivers. My G85 is basically useless. I wish Gimp Print would work, but nothing ever prints after it leaves the queue. I am embarrased having to tell my customers, who relied upon me to recommend a good printer, that HP screwed them again and has not released drivers. This mess is the same with HP's rip software for the DesignJet series. 10.1 support was released months after 10.2 was released. It barely works under 10.2 and not at all in Panther. What a pain! Why is it that HP makes great hardware that lasts forever, but has always had crappy software, while Epson has okay hardware with ink tanks that dry up in minutes (HP's go and go and go), but their software works without much incident (excepting the Epson Rip). What we need is a Hepson printer - great hardware and software combined. [alert admin]
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Thursday, January 15 2004 @ 08:24 PM PST
Samba 3.0 (Mac OS X)
Here is a great browser to utilize Apple's built-in SMB
Why not use what Apple already has installed. The only thing they are missing is a browser. Here is that missing piece. I have this in use at many sites and wow what a difference. http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/13795 [alert admin]
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Thursday, September 25 2003 @ 06:30 AM PDT
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quarkxpress 7.0.2 still slow and buggy
Well if InDesign is just a glorified PageMaker (huh?) and Quark is buggy, maybe you should go use Print Shop Deluxe! Oh wait, Print Shop looks 1% like InDesign, so that might be too much like PageMaker. How about using a quill and some parchment. So let me understand this, you would rather use a buggy, crappy program that has terrible support and whose newer releases tend to be worse than the last, rather than use…
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Tuesday, October 17 2006 @ 06:37 AM PDT
