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User Name rfrost
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Total number of Feedback Posts: 34
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Last 10 Feedback Posts by rfrost [ Search for All ]
MacDrive 8.0 (Windows NT, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows XP, Windows 2000)
$50 for simple software that on the linux platform is free! Clunky software full of deprecated code... I'm sure glad I don't often work in Windows. What a p.o.s. If I were a Windows programmer, I'd whip out a version of this in a few hours and charge $0-$5 for it; I'm surprised an undergrad CS student hasn't just done this as a quick project. Oh well, this is what one gets for hanging out in the wasteland that is Windows--cruddy software and greedy companies. [alert admin]
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Sunday, August 16 2009 @ 08:51 AM PDT
Web Snapper 2.3.2 (Mac OS X)
This is simply astounding! Yes, the scaling is a bit off, but this app provides the very best way to generate a neat, deliverable PDF of a Web page, with all links active (unlike "Print to PDF" in OSX). Wicked fast and clean, this sure beats firing up that despicable mess, Acrob*t Pro, just to get a good PDF'd Web page. So simple… <sigh> [alert admin]
Friday, June 06 2008 @ 03:55 PM PDT
Web Snapper 2.3.2 (Mac OS X)
This is simply astounding! Yes, the scaling is a bit off, but this app provides the very best way to generate a neat, deliverable PDF of a Web page, with all links active (unlike "Print to PDF" in OSX). Wicked fast and clean, this sure beats firing up that despicable mess, Acrob*t Pro, just to get a good PDF'd Web page. So simple… <sigh> [alert admin]
Friday, June 06 2008 @ 03:54 PM PDT
Cocktail 4.0.2 (Mac OS X)
When *censored*tail was first released, it was a killer app in its market segment. I paid for it and used it regularly, and happily. Nice, clean interface, easy to use, etc.—and worth the price. Since then, it's been downhill with a tangle of badly-timed, ill-defined, and questionably upgradable releases. So now I (again) try to run the gauntlet of upgrading to the Leopard version… It forces me to reenter my original registration, so I duly dig it out from my email archive only to discover that it's not accepted. I'm sure as h*ll not going to bother with trying to contact the developer or to pay up again. What a hassle. I'm switching to Onyx, which is free, better supported, and better. Good riddance, *censored*tail! [alert admin]
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Sunday, February 10 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
Readiris Pro 11.5.6 (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X)
I purchased version 9, then a few months later, they upped the version to 10 and tried to sell me the upgrade at full price. On top of that, this is odd, flaky software. Its accuracy is unimpressive, the interface is entirely weird, and the documentation badly presented and nearly unnavigable. It's a poor-quality port from M$ Windoze, and they didn't bother to get UI widgets, documentation, or workflows anywhere near Mac standards. Adobe charges a king's ransom for Acrobat—the most ratty piece of bloatware out there—but it does a much better job of OCR. For all the time you'll spend figuring out how to make this work and cleaning up the OCR'd material you could in most cases just rekey the original. Yes, it's that bad. [alert admin]
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Friday, August 24 2007 @ 09:50 AM PDT
MP3 ID3X 3.0.3 (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X)
This sucker often drops the last character in ID3 tags, esp. on clean-tagged flacs that I've ripped to mp3. All other apps read those tags properly. After buying this app about a year ago, I contacted the author about this problem and heard nothing back. Thanks a bunch. [alert admin]
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Thursday, May 17 2007 @ 08:10 AM PDT
DataViz MacLinkPlus Deluxe 16.000 (Mac OS X)
I first purchased some version of this software at least 12 years ago and it was genuinely useful then. At some time shortly thereafter they offered a subscription pricing plan, I think for about $50-80. I went for it, as in those days cross-platform file incompatibilities were quite a headache and DataViz offered a superb solution. Lo and behold, since I bought that subscription (which was only good for about two version increments), I have NEVER had a use for this product. I confess, once or twice I borrowed a copy to do a file translation (to read an old M$ Works or WordPerfect document, or whatever) and it wasn't up to the task. So in over ten years since, working in a university environment with many file-translation challenges, I never found a use for this product. I cannot imagine that you, dear reader, would either. Save your money. Donate it to a digital divide effort that's not based on a has-been (perhaps never-was) group that had one sort-of big idea years ago and has been cashing in on consumer naivete ever since. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, April 11 2007 @ 06:11 PM PDT
Sound Grinder 2.5.6 (Mac OS X)
This is embarrassingly bad. For starters, no Intel version a year later, and, if you want to rip to mp3, you install the PPC version (for which you don't need this app to use, just install the LAME codec into your Quicktime folder). To discover that it's PPC-only, I had to dig; these ppl are slightly dishonest in not admitting that they've not bothered to offer an Intel or UB version. I've tried using this for over a year and it always just doesn't quite seem to do the job--oh yes, sometimes it does, but so slowly I'm transported back to my days owning a Mac SE30, 1990 vintage. There are better, free/open-source apps for this or a similar set of cross-rippers elsewhere. Try Max or Audacity, and if you want real power, pay for Amadeus Pro (and please donate to the open-source developers). Why is it that this, MusicMan, and SoundConverter suck so badly while open-source solutions all seem to work better? [alert admin]
Monday, February 05 2007 @ 06:32 PM PST
Max 0.7.1 (Mac OS X)
I'm an audiophile and after months, maybe years, of f*arting around with SoundGrinder, MusicMan, Switch, and myriad other audio codec handlers (including iTune's own dreadful internal mp3 ripper), I discovered Max and its pals, Tag and Cog. Look nowhere else to meet your needs in handling a wide range of codecs and other audio tools. Sbooth, the developer, is the leader of a community that cares deeply about high-quality audio on the Mac, and he has forums that are a key site for knowledge about Mac audio. What a generous and brilliant soul! Bravo! [alert admin]
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Saturday, January 20 2007 @ 09:56 AM PST
Max 0.7.1 (Mac OS X)
I'm an audiophile and after months, maybe years, of f*arting around with SoundGrinder, MusicMan, Switch, and myriad other audio codec handlers (including iTune's own dreadful internal mp3 ripper), I discovered Max and its pals, Tag and Cog. Look nowhere else to meet your needs in handling a wide range of codecs and other audio tools. Sbooth, the developer, is the leader of a community that cares deeply about high-quality audio on the Mac, and he has forums that are a key site for knowledge about Mac audio. What a generous and brilliant soul! Bravo! [alert admin]
Saturday, January 20 2007 @ 09:24 AM PST
Last 10 Comments by rfrost [ Search for All ]
Best tool for that is "EasyWMA." I use it routinely with presets so that my WMA-formatted podcast lectures get converted, downsampled, and stuck in their appropriate locations. Nice!
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Sunday, January 29 2006 @ 03:48 PM PST
Yeah, right. I'm on version 11.0, so I ask it to check for updates, hoping that it won't crash at random, only to be told that there are no updates available. I then go to their site and find REALLY handy info on version 6. It sure is cute the ways these jerks take our money and disappear.
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Friday, December 30 2005 @ 04:07 PM PST
pynch's comment is VERY helpful--and there's a pretty late beta at the URL he offer. Thanks, pynch!
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Thursday, January 06 2005 @ 04:51 PM PST
Ditto others' comments, re: BS software. Last week, I go out and buy their $80 MX900 Bluetooth mouse, discover that my current Logitech Control Center s/w doesn't seem to support it, then I figure they'll update it soon for the requisite support. Today I discover "new drivers!" indicated cryptically on VT and on their site as "Support for new mice." So, with my new mouse, the new driver… nada! Maybe they should have been a…
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Thursday, August 19 2004 @ 09:28 AM PDT
And to be sure, Gore didn't lose; the Supremes appointed by Shrub's daddy and Reagan gave the office to the guy with fewer votes. I guess that since Daddy's pals also bought the election for Shrub, they felt they had to protect their investment. In any case, this is nice software, as it adds to my set of bushism sigs.
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Friday, August 29 2003 @ 12:47 PM PDT
