User Profile for pkiula

User Name pkiula

Member Since 2008-07-09

Total number of Feedback Posts: 5

Total number of comments: 3

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Butler 4.1.6 (Mac OS X)

Excellent little tool

Does what it says, very handily. [alert admin]

One, all this functionality is available in Firefox for free, and much more than this. Safari's plugin world sucks rocks. Two, I tried Saft and found that there are other free alternatives that do the job. And do it well. E.g., I wanted it mainly as an adblocker, and PithHelment allows much more control, as does the "Develop" menu of Safari (available in Preferences). Three, SAFT guys, please please fix the documentation and tell us how to uninstall! [alert admin]

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Thursday, July 17 2008 @ 11:47 PM PDT

FontAgent Pro 4.0.2 (Mac OS X)

The BEST one out there

I tried Suitcase Fusion. It didn't even have a mechanism of simply showing the fonts in WYSIWYG way! And dragging fonts to "sets" was a pain. FontXPlorer from Linotype is nice, but it leaves a lot to be desired, for instance when I activate a font, I want it enabled FOREVER, not only for my current session until reboot, thankyou. Scoured the preferences but some basic features are missing. OSX's default "FontBook" is nice enough for simple people but not for typophiles. Enter FontAgent Pro. Everything you want. Excellent interface, shows fonts easily, groupings/sets work like a charm, and the preferences are clearly laid out so you KNOW what's up. Highly highly recommended. [alert admin]

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Wednesday, July 16 2008 @ 08:22 PM PDT

Cocktail 4.0.2 (Mac OS X)

I'll stick to MainMenu

For what it is worth. MainMenu is a free app, and it does all of this stuff. Use it along with AppCleaner (also free) and you'll be fine. Both are light weight and do their job well, with a superb interface for both. [alert admin]

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Monday, July 14 2008 @ 09:28 PM PDT

VisualHub 1.34 (Mac OS X)

Does what it says on the tin

All I wanted to do was to take my AVI movie files and my SRT subtitle files, and burn them into a DVD format that my DVD player (Sony home theater) can play. Simple. I tried iDVD, then ffmpeg itself, then spent money on Roxio Toast (which is more eye candy than anything else), and so on. If they "worked" in the first place, they ended up recording the movie in a format that was unwatchable on the DVD player. Either a stupid aspect ration, despite specifying a widescreen format before the burn process, or some just wouldn't play. Then I tried a combination of Submerge and Visual Hub. End of woes. This is a small, but extremely useful application. It works. It just works. Which is how applications should be. [alert admin]

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I don't know what all the b*tching is about

An application that doesn't even uninstall itself on a platform as clean and welldocumented as OSX is worth bit*hing about. I have uninstalled every remnant of SAFT (didn't find its adblocker as efficient as PithHelment), have deleted every file, have reinstalled Safari, have repaird my disk permissions, rebooted and done whatever I can. Guess what. When I start Safari, I still see the wonderful message: "saft.app could not be found. Please place is in the…

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Thursday, July 17 2008 @ 11:45 PM PDT

Linotype is Free and No Crash

I have been using it for a quite a while now, and I have to ask you this: CRASH? My FontAgent Pro has *never* crashed. Are you sure you bought the thing and didn't just download some warez from somewhere. You get what you, um, pay for. This is hands-down better than FontXplorer. Any day.

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Wednesday, July 16 2008 @ 08:23 PM PDT

Deserves _6_ stars!

Try MainMenu, which is also free, and is not a beta. Small highly effective application. Also 5 stars on VT.