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User Name pmccann
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Navicat 7.0.6 (Mac OS X)
Excellent: polished, reliable, and really useful 
If you are spending a significant amount of time creating, adjusting and refining mysql databases this software should regularly bring a smile to your face. Yes, there are web-based (free) solutions, and other applications like CocoaMySql and YourSQL, but Navicat easily justifies its initial cost with its slick, helpful interface and extra functionality (over at least the first two: I've not spent a lot of time with phpmyadmin). Small bonus for academic users: the price is about 20% cheaper. Four stars instead of five because the Windows version has a few nice features that aren't (yet) implemented in the Mac version (Form View, Code Completion). The prices reflect these differences to some extent (ie the Windows version is more expensive), but it'd be nice to achieve feature parity across the board. [alert admin]
Friday, September 07 2007 @ 05:52 PM PDT
Plain Text Editor 3.2 (Mac OS X)
Without *trying* to be rude...
When an application has to mention "you can print your documents", and "you can check spelling", and so forth it's just got to be a bad sign. What next? "You can use *any* of your digits to type with?" Or perhaps, as per the screenshot: "you can also make the background a hideous pink so that the html text in there (without any syntax highlighting) looks disgusting". Yeesh... as mentioned above, if you want a cheap text editor go for the free TextWrangler, which is several orders of magnitude more useful than this application. If you're prepared to shell out (sorry, bad joke) for a text editor than give TextMate a try for a month. It costs 39 Euros after that, but it's going to look pretty good against 15 Euros (no, I'm not joking) for 'Plain Text Editor'. If you think TextWrangler looks too complex for your usage than I can only plead with you to download "Tex-edit Plus" instead: it's cheaper and, well, let's just say "in a different league" to PTE. In summary, this is much, much closer to Alpha than it is to Omega... Paul [alert admin]
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Thursday, August 23 2007 @ 12:57 AM PDT
FinderPop 2.0.1 (Mac OS X)
It's working on my Intel mac. Might be worth noting that it took a logout/login cycle for anything to appear in the contextual menus. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, January 23 2007 @ 10:56 PM PST
Posterino 1.0 beta 6 (Mac OS X)
Aspects of this application are really nice, but it's currently a bit of a hog; relatively simple tasks take a long time, and after constructing a couple of relatively simple posters the *real* memory usage was over 250MB. OUCH! When it says beta it means **beta**. Just for the record, it also takes a long time doing very, very little when asked to produce a jpg/tiff of a poster you've created. In trial mode it does not such thing, but instead spins its wheels for some time before producing a jpg/tiff that's nothing but a slap in the face. Blrrrk. [alert admin]
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Monday, November 06 2006 @ 05:17 AM PST
iTerm 0.9.0 (Mac OS X)
The latest version (as below, once you're over the initial shock of the metal tabs) looks very promising. The font rendering with antialiasing on is about the only thing that doesn't ring true: things are pretty murky with, say, Monaco. I'm tempted (for the nth time, n large) to dump Terminal for iTerm: let's see how a week's trial goes... [alert admin]
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Thursday, October 05 2006 @ 11:09 PM PDT
BBEdit 8.5 (Mac OS X)
Wow: having not been to the BareBones site for quite some time it was a bit of a shock to be confronted by some of the ugliest pages in existence. *Real Stinky!* (And the "more than 160 new features" crapola sounds no better coming from BareBones than it does from Phil Schiller. ) Given that web designers are one of their targets it might have been a good idea to have employed one for their own site! LOOK KIDS: YOU CAN HAVE A SITE LOIK OURZ IF YOU BI BBEdit. Red and yellow and purple and black and a logo from hell... guess it was the same person involved in the Yojimbo design! [alert admin]
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Thursday, September 07 2006 @ 11:57 PM PDT
Picasa Web Albums Uploaders 1.0.0.1 (Mac OS X)
Does what it promises with relative ease and a bit of style. Highly recommended. The picasaweb upload speed seems a little on the low side at the moment, but hard to tell if that's transient. [alert admin]
Tuesday, August 22 2006 @ 11:40 PM PDT
Shimo 0.8.1 (Mac OS X)
It's easy to forget the silly bouncing up and down of the Cisco VPN client, and I'm happy to do exactly that. Shimo makes connecting disconnecting to a VPN via Cisco exactly as smooth and easy as it should be. I do agree that it could lose the dock icon, but all else is pretty much perfect. [alert admin]
Sunday, July 16 2006 @ 05:26 PM PDT
XML Editor 2.3 (Mac OS X)
If you're going to be using this for academic/personal projects please take a little time and have a look at OxygenXML first. Yes it's big, but it's *extremely* well done, and the feature set is several orders of magnitude above what's offered by XML Editor for pretty much the same price. XML+DTD is pretty miserable these days! [alert admin]
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Monday, June 26 2006 @ 10:54 PM PDT
BBEdit 8.2.5 (Mac OS X)
The notorious, long standing "fugly" bug. As per the previous poster's comments, this thing still feels like you're stuck in 1999. I actually own an 8.x license but barely (ha ha) use BBEdit any more. Anyone looking for a text editor that leans toward the unix philosophy instead of towards Mac OS 8 would do well to give TextMate a spin: that's where my love lies these days. You have to work a little to get it to do what you're after, but the work is repaid many times over, because the extensibility and customisability puts BBEdit to shame. On the up side at least Bare Bones is getting their feet wet in Cocoa, so I'd hazard a bet that a BBEdit rewrite in Cocoa is well underway. [alert admin]
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Monday, March 06 2006 @ 02:54 PM PST
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Nice App - Warning about Privacy
Sure: looks like an entirely warranted stance to me. People who offer free services are *not* bound to support users in any way whatsoever, and -- to put it bluntly -- *should* tell obnoxious twerps to take a hike. If you want servants you're going to have to pay for them...
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Thursday, March 08 2007 @ 09:48 PM PST
The one I remember from OS8/9 was called Snap-to, and was made by Eden Sherry. There was a companion app that actually *pressed* the default after a given delay, called Okey Dokey.
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Tuesday, October 03 2006 @ 11:31 PM PDT
Please do the world a favour: whenever you see the words "Virtual Memory" slowly repeat the phrase "I have no idea what is meant by that and so will refrain from posting messages containing those words". Thanks. [Clue: the "amount of virtual memory consumed" is meaningless.]
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Tuesday, August 29 2006 @ 04:05 PM PDT
You really should use that "return" key more often. Using your mouse to scroll to the default button in a dialog is like walking to the corner store via Antarctica.
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Friday, August 18 2006 @ 06:18 PM PDT
Nope: no one kidding at this end. Earnest: Deadly Earnest. Me likes me text shaken, stirred, then shaken a bit more. Don't like TextMate? OK: horses for courses and all that... Which is BBEdit's inferiors do you consider superior to TextMate?
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Tuesday, March 07 2006 @ 06:03 AM PST
You're joking, right? A graphics designer? I'm a mathematical physicist and I need a program to calculate spectra: I tried Calculator.app and it didn't do it. Man, what a POS.
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Monday, March 06 2006 @ 02:01 AM PST
Snapz Pro X A Quantum Leap? Not!
Do you always whine this much when mistaking a clearly labelled product for something else? Exactly what part of the description on this versiontracker page didn't you understand before buying the thing? Sheesh...
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Sunday, June 26 2005 @ 04:31 PM PDT
Dear Moron, if you had bothered to do even the tiniest bit of research into this product you'd have noticed that it has absolutely nothing to do with "piggybacking on Apple's work". Try learning to read before offering up your dross as a review.
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Thursday, June 16 2005 @ 05:52 PM PDT
Ah, you've got to love the old Launchbar stalwarts, so ridiculously insecure in their $$PAID$$ choice that every time someone mentions or displays one of the free alternatives they become apopleptic and wave their arms around trying to hit all of the free alternatives at once. Relax man, you chose Launchbar at the beginning of time, and no-one's going to notice you smoking that familiar old pipe in the corner. It's OK. Really. In the…
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Thursday, June 02 2005 @ 01:15 AM PDT
Wake up and smell the illiteracy yourself: TeX is the standard (for 20 years or so) ascii rendering for Knuth's typesetting system. TeX4ht is for TeX to html conversion; it's a standard part of the current TeX distributions. Books, covers, sheesh...
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Friday, April 08 2005 @ 01:48 PM PDT
