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User Name riff.raf
Member Since 2004-05-29
Total number of Feedback Posts: 26
Total number of comments: 8
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Cast Away 1.9.2 (Mac OS X)
I've watched this thing evolve - with hope - but it just doesn't work in any predictable manner. Go ahead, run it a few times in a row and watch how it deletes some podcasts on one pass, then others the next time - for seemingly no reason. Listen as it says it deleted podcast. Then read how it says it did AND says it didn't. Watch how it increments play counts as it runs - leaving smart playlists based on play counts FUBAR. Look at an interface that is ugly and confusing beyond any attempt at explanation. I just gave it another try, hoping that perhaps this rev fixed some stuff. Nope - I now need to dig through my trash and reset playcounts all over. What a hateful mess. [alert admin]
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Saturday, April 15 2006 @ 07:05 PM PDT
iBiz 2.5.1 (Mac OS X)
WHAT are the improvements? What is new?
I like to know why I'm installing updates, and what to look for. Silly me. Maybe I should relax. No. I need to know. Please! [alert admin]
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Tuesday, March 07 2006 @ 03:27 PM PST
On My Pod 1.0 (Mac OS X)
Less helpful than yellow pages... 
...only smaller. A quick look at the listings for "Boston" show no information other than name, address and phone number for any of the restaurants, merchants, or other categories offered. The developer will need to do much better. The yellow pages break things down by type, at least. As it is, this is fairly useless, although the idea is nice. Also, if you are going to offer something for the iPod, spell and capitalize it correctly. It helps with credibility. [alert admin]
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Friday, February 10 2006 @ 07:49 AM PST
CoverFlow 0.1982 (Mac OS X)
Declinging Useabilty disappoints...
I really do love this app, but it is starting to suffer feature bloat at the same time that older, important features are breaking. I for one, can no longer get iTunes to respond in any meaningful way to what I do in coverflow: double clicking an album starts a nice zoom effect, but nothing happens in iTunes. while listening to a track in iTunes, and flipping through the album covers and double clicking one in coverflow starts a nice zoom, and the coverflow quickly flips back to the already playing track. The stop, forward and back buttons do nothing for me. Who knows, maybe its my rig, but all apps and OS are current... It's still pretty, but I can't show off to Winblows people any more - once again my mac looks like tempermental, barely functional eye candy :-( [alert admin]
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Saturday, January 28 2006 @ 10:13 AM PST
Google Fight 1.0 (Mac OS X)
silly, useless, trivial, priceless
So much fun for no money in such a small space. Only beef: How do it know? Is it counting occurences of keywords, or what? [alert admin]
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Friday, January 27 2006 @ 03:30 PM PST
Missing Sync for Palm OS 5.0.2 (Mac OS X)
What changed? Why should I try again?
So, we got a .02 update. What's changed. Nothing here, nothing at Mark/Space. I'd love to love this, but I'm not trying again on a dare. Not after what happened to me with 5.01. Regardless of what people thought of my last comments, and I don't understand how they were "useless" to all of you, I stand by them, and swear to the full day of lost productivity I had, trying to ungarble a mess. [alert admin]
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Saturday, November 19 2005 @ 09:16 AM PST
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Very Aptly Named, Since the Sync IS What's Missing...
Quite simply put, never has an application caused me so much trouble in so short a period of time. As desperate as the next guy to be done with Palm Hotsync, I gave The Missing Sync a fair spin... several weeks. What I got was: • garbled categories on everything • events that wandered from the right date to the wrong date at random • duplicate and triplicates of events • completely lost telephone numbers & addresses • other bad stuff that I haven't even begun to figure out • less freedom and flexibility in using iCal because each calendar HAD to correspond to a Palm category • an even more horrible experience that took hours to rectify when I tried to uninstall and swith back to Hotsync. What I didn't get was: • any method whereby my cell phone could be included in the mix • anything at all better than iSync with Palm Hotsync • any reason why one would choose to pay for this crap when the free alternative, no matter how bad, is better. On the up side, my hatred for Smith Micro has cooled a bit. Well, not really, it's just that I have to split my bile between FaxSTF and Missing Sync from now on. YECH!!! AVOID!!! Honestly, don't even waste your time and possibly your data by demo-ing this thing. [alert admin]
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Friday, November 18 2005 @ 03:21 PM PST
Desktop Icon Manager 2.0 (Mac OS X)
OK, This is all I've ever wanted since OS 9 Went Away!!
Thank Heavens!! and FREE no less. Fruit Menu and other other little "9 like" hacks and tricks are sweet, or cute, or helpful or whatever, but the random migration of icons on the OS X desktop has been a major PITA for me for years. Now I can say that there's not anything that qualifies as "pet peeve" for OS X anymore... well... that's going too far... but this ROCKS! [alert admin]
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Tuesday, November 01 2005 @ 11:00 AM PST
CoverFlow 1.9 (Mac OS X)
Well, there is a fly in the ointment...
Just noticed that many of the album covers I added by Amazon search are not retained between sessions. I have not had time to check to see how this corresponds to what's also saved in iTunes, but I suspect there's some relationship. I have found that, from session to session, DIFFERENT covers are dropped... not always the same ones... I'm a little stumped, but don't know how much time I'll put into trouble shooting eye-candy! [alert admin]
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Tuesday, October 18 2005 @ 04:59 PM PDT
CoverFlow 1.9 (Mac OS X)
This is a shining example of the kind of software you show to a PC-based friend who doesn't understand why a "bright guy like you" "wastes money" on an "overpriced toy" like a Macintosh. Because not only can a Mac user do everything that a PC can, but Mac Users have more fun, because of people like this developer. Useful? Marginally. Improvable? Definitely. A total, boffo, gas to play with? Abso-freakin'-lutely positively! I'd like to see it share album art with iTunes. I notice that when CoverFlow gets artwork, it does not apply it to the corresponding album in iTunes. I'd like to see it have the ability to go out and grab artwork and apply it to the library without my interaction, but maybe pending my approval. Kind of like some of the iEatbrainz or mpFreaker functionality. Rather than a ReadMe, I'd like to see this info in "Help" Then again, I'd like a head of thick and wavy hair. I'll live with what I got. I should add, that I note this is a "tech demo." I hope that when it reaches "final" there will not be a fee for this app. As cute as it is, I would not pay for this "toy." That said, more as a discussion provoker than a criticism, I would consider a voluntary donation for later versions. If you have not tried this yet, give it a go. Who knew that less than a 400k download could be so much fun since 1994? [alert admin]
Tuesday, October 18 2005 @ 09:49 AM PDT
Last 10 Comments by riff.raf [ Search for All ]
It's free you cranky curmudgeon. There's just no pleasing some people.
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Thursday, January 19 2006 @ 05:33 AM PST
How much do they pay for shills like you?
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Saturday, November 19 2005 @ 09:02 AM PST
of course not. It drinks itself silly and marries Liza Minelli!
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Wednesday, November 09 2005 @ 07:03 AM PST
OK, that may be all well and good... but, I for one, have never used MSN Messenger, so that information tells me nothing. Also, must iChat be running?Must I be "available," or does this just run in the background and see my contacts whether or not iChat is running? Simple information such as this would give the user an idea of what to expect, and on what basis to judge an application. I appreciate the efforts of…
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Monday, October 03 2005 @ 06:05 PM PDT
From what I can see EnKoder is Kaput. No sign of hiveware.com. Any clues? Would like to try.
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Friday, March 11 2005 @ 01:42 PM PST
That comment was meant for the developer, not the whiners....
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Tuesday, November 16 2004 @ 05:06 PM PST
No good deed goes unpiunished!
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Tuesday, November 16 2004 @ 05:04 PM PST
I think Apple loses this one, or buys the name...
I'm with you, Ian. Prior use rules!
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Tuesday, September 07 2004 @ 12:56 PM PDT
