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User Name rbryanh
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Readiris Pro 11.6.4 (Mac OS X)
First and foremost, it's ludicrously unreliable. I tried it on two different systems and was unable to complete a 50-page project. Beyond that, the basic conception of a document production workflow is terribly flawed. Even if it worked, it would be inefficient. Its features are often poorly conceived - clumsy and needlessly confusing. Some of them (e.g., version update) simply don't work. Its documentation is written in Engrisch (but full of exclamation points to make you happy even though the product for you is not to be working!), help features are absent, and support barely exists. Finally, it's expensive. In short, take it out and shoot it. [alert admin]
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Sunday, May 10 2009 @ 01:42 AM PDT
Adobe Digital Editions 1.7 (Mac OS X)
Another Waddling Turkey from Adobe 
It's glacially slow, it's ugly, and it's aggressively, hideously, and utterly un-Mac. It's an ill-conceived mediocrity - a Web 2.0 cloud fart inflicted upon your desktop. No doubt it will become an industry standard through sheer force of monopoly. [alert admin]
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Thursday, April 16 2009 @ 02:35 PM PDT
Acquisition 2.0 build 209 (Mac OS X)
I've been using Acquisition since version 1.0, and have always wanted to like it. The intended functionality is good, the interface is just fine, and when it works, it works well. Unfortunately, it works well only about half the time. It's one of the most unreliable and fractious applications I've ever used. It locks up almost as often as it has it CPU fits where it hogs ridiculous amounts of processing. [alert admin]
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Sunday, January 11 2009 @ 05:20 PM PST
Acquisition 118.3 (Mac OS X)
Acquisition began demanding my registration information after I upgraded to Tiger. I am registered, it won't accept the information, and the developer has failed to respond to repeated requests for support. Upgrading to the latest version has no effect on this problem. I give up. Pity - I thought it was well done, and used to like it. [alert admin]
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Friday, May 27 2005 @ 04:27 PM PDT
Tri-BACKUP 4.0.2 (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X)
Tri-Backup deals with removable media by backing up to separate folders which are then manually burned to disc. This is wasteful, time consuming, inelegant, and assumes that one has available disk space at least equal to what's to be backed up. And egaads is the UI ugly. [alert admin]
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Saturday, November 27 2004 @ 12:31 PM PST
Dantz Retrospect 6.0.204 (Mac OS X)
Retrospect Incompatible With New G5 Superdrive
Retrospect 6.0.204 is incompatible with the Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-117D that was supplied with my new G5. It will neither recognize it, nor create a custom configuration for it. (It will, however, trash as much media as I care to waste, trying to get it to work.) Dantz is slow to update Retrospect to match new hardware - the OS X version of the product has been the poor cousin of its Windows counterpart for quite some time. Their site does not even mention this problem. [alert admin]
Saturday, November 27 2004 @ 10:46 AM PST
FAXstf X 10.1.3 (Mac OS X)
A product so poorly conceived and badly executed that it's difficult even to credit the publisher with good intentions. Upgrades all fall into the category of "far too little, much too late." I've had root canals I enjoyed more. One hopes Smith Micro will refrain from inflicting future offerings on OS X, and confine themselves to crippling Windows users, who're accustomed to this sort of abuse. Three cheers for Page Sender: http://www.smilesoftware.com/ [alert admin]
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Friday, July 25 2003 @ 09:24 PM PDT
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Spawn of Satan was not impressed. [alert admin]
Saturday, May 17 2003 @ 07:38 PM PDT
Stalker CommuniGate Pro 4.0.2 (Mac OS X)
dices, it turns your body into a fat-burning furnace! The single most powerful and reliable piece of major software I've encountered in the past 20 years. [alert admin]
Wednesday, November 27 2002 @ 07:14 AM PST
Chronos Group Organizer Server X 4.0.3 (Mac OS X)
is the least reliable commercial application I've encountered in 15 years of systems work. In general, I fine Organizer to be buggy, unreliable, with a disorganized and outdated interface. Support was both available and responsive, but ineffective. After months of constant "unexpected quits," lost data, and seriously confused users, I simply wrote off my investment in it and abandoned the product. [alert admin]
Wednesday, November 20 2002 @ 11:43 AM PST
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