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TubeTV 1.0 (Mac OS X)

good but...  

Got a lot going for it, but some pretty big oversights in my opinion. This is a browser by nature - not including tabbed window functionality, not even the ability to have multiple windows at once is almost a deal-breaker in itself. Since this is also a download application, I'm surprised that there isn't an option to enable/disable/cancel automatic video loading in the browser. Presumably the purpose of this app is download whatever flash video that catches your eye so you can watch it later offline. When downloading multiple videos, being able to turn off the auto-load would certainly help bandwidth burden. When downloading more than 4 videos at a time, errors continually occur to one or more of the downloads. No ability to select individual videos in the progress window. [alert admin]

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Saturday, August 02 2008 @ 07:51 PM PDT

Birthdaybook 4.6 (Mac OS X)

nice, wth reservations  

yes, new version is best yet, but there is stll a ways to go. Well, for freeware, it really is quite excellent and so my criticism is more encouragement than complaint. One deal breaker for me is that BirthdayBook isn't able to re-import dates from Address Book after initial setup. After that, if you have since added birthdays to Address Book then you still have to manually add those dates to BirthdayBook. To me, a pretty basic function, but a fairly obvious omission. I would hope to see closer integration with Address Book and iCal in the future - use of Address Book database as primary database, export to iCal, and the ability for it to automatically generate alerts without the app having to be open. I recommend it for basic use, especially as it is freeware, but a 5-star app it is not. I'll keep watching. [alert admin]

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Thursday, November 15 2007 @ 01:26 AM PST

Xtorrent Beta 2 (v26) (Mac OS X)

I know this is still in Beta but...  

This review applies only the the Beta2 release - all issues may be remedied in the future public release... Xtorrent is a fantastic UI, clean and intuitive and well designed. David is a fantastic designer, great programer and dedicated Mac platform developer. BUT, as with Acquisition (which I also love), I have found that these applications can be very unstable and virtually unusable on too many people's Macs - laptops in particular. Simply, they are memory and processor hogs. I can run a dozen apps (some quite intensive) at the same time (Adobe CS2, FCPro, MSOffice, Mail, FileMaker, Quicktime, Google Earth, etc) on my Powerbook and not overwhelm my PCU and send my cooling fans spinning, but just Xtorrent (or Acquisition for that matter) alone can bring the whole computer to a standstill. I should note that this does not happen every time, but there is something in the code of David's apps that has the tendency to just confund, beleager and overwhelm even G5 desktops from time to time, never mind a year-old G4 Powerbook. So with that, I give Xtorrent very high marks for design, intuitive controls and what it does - in fact it gets my highest rating of them all. But I have to give it rather low marks for the way those features are implemented. Not being a programmer, just simply a user, I am not qualified to say whether this problem is avoidable, but I can say that while I don't like any of them as much, most other P2P/Torrent clients require far less processor/memory commitment. These are good apps that deserve a try and your support. I just hope he can eventually figure out a way to make them work. [alert admin]

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Saturday, January 13 2007 @ 01:39 PM PST

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