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User Name plaintiger
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MagiCal 1.1r2 (Mac OS X)
this looks like a nice enough app, but if you want all the functionality of MagiCal, plus the option (but not the requirement) to show CPU usage, memory usage, hard drive usage, hard drive activity, network usage, network activity, and a temperature gauge for each CPU in your machine, all in your menu bar, all in a prettier and more configurable package than MagiCal's, and all for free, you owe it to yourself to check out iStat Menus. it may be more than you want/need (i actually only use the network activity and bandwidth indicators and the clock/calendar myself), but even if you only use the clock/calendar, i bet you'll be more impressed with it than you are with MagiCal. i'm not affiliated in any way with...uh...whoever makes iStat Menus...i'm just a really happy user. whichever one you settle on, enjoy... :) [alert admin]
Wednesday, November 04 2009 @ 06:15 PM PST
iClock Pro 1.0rc4 (Mac OS X)
i had but to read the last four reviews - one fellow's had it installed for *years* and it *still* doesn't work right! - to know i ain't even giving this thing a download. to the developer: get it together or get out. we don't need crap like this cluttering up versiontracker and wasting everybody's time. [alert admin]
Wednesday, November 04 2009 @ 05:44 PM PST
World Clock Deluxe X 4.6.6 (Mac OS X)
too complex and unintuitive for me
i'm a Mac user from back in the day when you could fire up pretty much any Mac app, spend five minutes poking around in the menus and the preferences, and be ready to use the app to its full potential. while i don't still expect to be able to do that with, say, Photoshop, i guess i do expect to be able to do it with a clock. so after i'd spent about two minutes looking around the app for a way to turn off the am/pm designation in (what i think i'd set up to be) a 24-hour clock, and hadn't found it, i just gave up and tossed the app. obviously there are some people who are well pleased with World Clock Deluxe's functionality and that's great - i'm just not one of them. i'm just looking for a simple way to display Greenwich Mean Time, and maybe the times in the major forex markets, somewhere on my screen. the clock i decide on may have some other features that i'll like when i see them, but it won't be loaded with so many features that i need a manual to figure out how to do what should be simple things. [alert admin]
Wednesday, November 04 2009 @ 05:28 PM PST
WorldTimes 1.2 (Mac OS X)
for anyone who's wondering like i was, yes, even up here in 2009 WorldTimes keeps going. i've only been running it for a few minutes but in that time i've removed and added cities and changed the names of one or two (New_York to New York, Berlin to Frankfurt) and haven't encountered any hitches. this is going to be helpful in my forex trading. bravo! i might like the option to display analog clocks - as long as they too showed am/pm and the day of the week. but not having that option is no deal-breaker for me. i donated $10.00. [alert admin]
Tuesday, October 27 2009 @ 03:50 PM PDT
Happy Mac Command Line Phobia Defeater 0.0.0.0.0.0.1 (Mac OS X)
now you just need to replace the Terminal window that appears when you actually run the command with a pretty, friendly window like the one from which the command is run and you'll have a complete app. [alert admin]
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Sunday, September 27 2009 @ 01:19 PM PDT
PowerTicker X 2.8 (Mac OS X)
as someone noted about v.2.5, v.2.8.0 also leaks like a sieve. at launch on my system, PowerTicker uses 10.8 MB of RAM; the longer the app runs - that is, just the ticker running across the top of the screen; i don't use any of the app's other functions - the more RAM it takes up; i think the most i've caught it using is 760 MB. it also seems to be less than fully compatible with Snow Leopard, as quitting PowerTicker - even before it's sucked up over 700 MB of RAM - leaves a motionless apparition of the ticker across my screen. and finally, when the ticker is running - again, no matter how much RAM it's taken up so far - it's slightly jittery. it's a minor thing, but i can't help but think how much more pleasing it would be to look at if it rolled smoothly across the screen. i love PowerTicker's ticker - jitters aside, it's the nicest-looking one i've found. but behind the scenes is a rather flawed mass of code that nobody seems terribly interested in fixing. i wish they did, but the fact that it's leaked memory for at least ten years now - since before WhiteNile owned it - and that it's been updated somewhere around once every three or four years and none of those updates has addressed the app's biggest problems - doesn't give me much reason to hope. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, September 16 2009 @ 01:10 AM PDT
PowerTicker X 2.8 (Mac OS X)
as someone noted about v.2.5, v.2.8.0 also leaks like a sieve. at launch on my system, PowerTicker uses 10.8 MB of RAM; the longer the app runs - that is, just the ticker running across the top of the screen; i don't use any of the app's other functions - the more RAM it takes up; i think the most i've caught it using is 760 MB. it also seems to be less than fully compatible with Snow Leopard, as quitting PowerTicker - even before it's sucked up over 700 MB of RAM - leaves a motionless apparition of the ticker across my screen. and finally, when the ticker is running - again, no matter how much RAM it's taken up so far - it's slightly jittery. it's a minor thing, but i can't help but think how much more pleasing it would be to look at if it rolled smoothly across the screen. i love PowerTicker's ticker - jitters aside, it's the nicest-looking one i've found. but behind the scenes is a rather flawed mass of code that nobody seems terribly interested in fixing. i wish they did, but the fact that it's leaked memory for at least ten years now - since before WhiteNile owned it - and that it's been updated somewhere around once every three or four years and none of those updates has addressed the app's biggest problems - doesn't give me much reason to hope. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, September 16 2009 @ 01:07 AM PDT
CheckBook Pro 2.0.3 (Mac OS X)
a little too simple, a little too carelessly designed 
i bought CheckBook Pro on the strength of the versiontracker reviews, but the more i use it the more small but nagging design flaws i'm uncovering, mostly in the form of the app not behaving like a Macintosh app is supposed to. for example: - on the Mac, you deselect highlighted items in a list either selectively by command-clicking them, or all at once by clicking in an area of the list that contains no items. neither of these operations works as expected in a CheckBook Pro transaction list. further, it appears that at least one transaction must always be highlighted in a CheckBook Pro transaction list. if there's a way to "deselect all," i can't find it. - the above complaint is made a bigger deal by the fact that, while CheckBook Pro can display credits to your account in green text and debits against your account in red text (or whatever color coding you choose to use), the text of highlighted transactions simply appears white, and the highlighting blue. thus, since you can't deselect all transactions, there is always at least one transaction in every CheckBook Pro transaction list that you can't identify as being either a credit or a debit by simply looking at the color. i don't know if it's true of everybody, but my brain processes colors much faster than it finds the "amount" column and determines whether there's a minus sign in front of the amount of the transaction. as such, this absence of identifying color for highlighted transactions is a stumbling block and a considerable annoyance for me. - after entering text into the Category field of the transaction entry sheet, pressing the down-arrow key on the keyboard should highlight the first item in the Category pop-down menu that matches the text entered by the user. instead, pressing the down-arrow simply highlights the first item in the menu, so that whether i've typed in Recreation or Utilities, pressing the down-arrow highlights Auto (or any alphabetically earlier category i may have created). pressing the up-arrow works as it should: it highlights the bottommost entry that matches the text entered by the user. but pressing the down-arrow highlights the first item in the whole menu regardless of the text entered by the user. this too is a design flaw that needs to be addressed for the app to work the way a Macintosh app is supposed to. - selecting multiple items in a list and performing an action on one of them - such as checking the "resolved" checkbox - is supposed to perform that action on all the selected items. in CheckBook Pro, it doesn't. i also don't see a way to display both available and ledger balances. that would be nice. these are just the problems i've found so far, in very light use of the app. if i continue to use it - which is in some question - i expect i'll find other such inconsistencies with the Macintosh user interface guidelines. these issues don't appear to be issues to everyone, but they are to me, so i suggest checking them out in the demo and seeing if you can live with them before plunking down your cash on the app. [alert admin]
Tuesday, August 11 2009 @ 06:20 PM PDT
Apple Time Capsule & AirPort Base Station 7.4.2 (Mac OS X)
i'd finally gotten my airport setup working perfectly when this &%$#?! update came out. since installing the update, one of the benefits of which is supposedly that it fixes a problem that was causing dropped connections, my connection drops at least once a day and usually more. this sucks big time. i hope i can down-date. [alert admin]
Thursday, July 02 2009 @ 07:50 PM PDT
Apple Time Capsule & AirPort Base Station 7.4.2 (Mac OS X)
i'm seeing weird behaviors with 7.4.2 that i never saw with 7.4.1, like a dropped connection (which 7.4.2 was supposed to *fix,* not introduce) and incredible sloth in connecting to websites and mail and stuff. is it possible to downgrade? [alert admin]
Saturday, June 27 2009 @ 01:28 AM PDT
Last 10 Comments by plaintiger [ Search for All ]
Highly configurable and very useful
you love it for its *simplicity*? i'd hate to see something you consider complicated. :D
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Wednesday, November 04 2009 @ 05:36 PM PST
This program could be very useful.
actually, the most basic resolution for this problem is to simply change your abbreviation. if you change the abbreviation for "Eastern District of New York" to "edny", you're not likely to continue experiencing the problem you describe. i once had an abbreviation in TypeIt4Me that i used for a good year or more before i encountered a conflict between the abbreviation and something else i might have occasion to type; when i did i just changed…
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Saturday, September 26 2009 @ 09:28 PM PDT
This program could be very useful.
setting TE to expand only after white space will take care of this problem - provided you never need to expand abbreviations typed immediately after some other character...
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Saturday, September 26 2009 @ 09:03 PM PDT
Damn it, VersionTracker - fix your posting system!!!
i second that.
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Monday, August 03 2009 @ 01:31 AM PDT
ahhh: the person experiencing no problems is on a PPC machine. so i guess that's it: iStumbler isn't compatible with Intel machines (i.e., it's obsolete). oh well.
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Saturday, April 04 2009 @ 12:39 AM PDT
i second it (third it?) too. (three? : P
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Friday, April 03 2009 @ 06:26 PM PDT
Mac versus MS keyboard shortcuts
while i initially thought versiontracker2007 was correct about the cmd/option issue, it turns out Krioni was right. the Mac standard is option-left/right arrow to move the cursor one word at a time and command-left/right arrow to move to the beginning/end of a line. as to how Neo/OpenOffice handle these commands, well...don't ask me...
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Wednesday, February 11 2009 @ 04:28 AM PST
agreed, exactly. the people who write this software seem to have no grasp of the significance of the Macintosh nor how, nor why, nor even *that* it changed computing forever. alas...
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Tuesday, February 10 2009 @ 05:46 PM PST
it does seem to keep album artwork. it did for at least some of my music. don't know about lyrics, etc.
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Sunday, December 14 2008 @ 08:06 AM PST
fyi, i ALWAYS use my eyes and my brain before writing. on 11/20/08, clicking the "download now" link deposited a .exe file on my drive. hence my comment. the situation has since been rectified. now i just hope it works.
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Sunday, December 14 2008 @ 12:34 AM PST
