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User Name sng40

Member Since 2004-11-27

Total number of Feedback Posts: 12

Total number of comments: 9

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Gizmo5 4.0.0.258 (Mac OS X)

Incompatible with earlier (3.1.2) Gizmo Project?

I managed to download and set the app, and it recognized **my** Gizmo Project account, though the account information was empty, and I had to enter my account/user information all over again. It did not add any of my earlier (Gizmo Project v3.1.2) contacts, however, and when I searched for them, they could not be found. So, all this leads me to believe that Gizmo5 is an entirely different beast from the earlier Gizmo Project, even if it shares the same icon. The implication is that your universe of contacts will all have to re-enter their account info under Gizmo5 for you to be able to reach them. This is a shame; it is starting out all over again. Skype maintains all contact information with each new update. The one positive change is that you can now enter a graphic of your choice as your account picture, rather than having to choose from the array of Pablum icons offered by the developer. I hope that the developers are reading this and that they will solve this serious disconnect between versions. [alert admin]

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Sunday, May 18 2008 @ 10:24 AM PDT

Reference Miner 3.0 (Mac OS X)

Reference Miner is SWEET!

Just tried it out for the first time for PubMed, searching on "bariatric surgery and diabetes", a very current topic as evidenced on the front page of today's Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/03/AR2008050301837.html?hpid%3Dtopnews&sub=AR. Results were almost instantaneous and astoundingly good. Huge thanks for a very helpful tool. --SteveG [alert admin]

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Sunday, May 04 2008 @ 10:45 AM PDT

Psi 0.12-RC2 (Mac OS X)

Does it have password login to chat rooms yet?

Psi was the very first jabber client that I tried. And, it worked just fine until I had to join chat in the "Boardroom" which was protected by a password. Psi did not have the capability to execute the password procedure, so I could not use it. Then, I found Adium which is also freeware and which DOES support passworded login to chat rooms. I have not looked back since. --Steve [alert admin]

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Saturday, April 05 2008 @ 01:31 PM PDT

Videobox 2.5.1 (Mac OS X)

A real quality product

Have been using it a lot with mpeg4 out and next-to-highest quality, auto send to iTunes. Works GREAT. NICE, NICE, NICE!!! I cannot seem to add a title to a download that will stick with it all the way to the mp4 stage, but that is easily remedied manually after the fact. Nice that iTunes can put it on my iPhone as well. This is a real quality product! Needs some illustrated instructions, however, as the many output options can be daunting. Developer support is OUTSTANDING; documentation, so far, is absent. Therefore I rated it neutral on Support/Documentation. Yes, price increased to $15. I should have bought it for $8 when I first downloaded it. --Steve [alert admin]

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Wednesday, March 19 2008 @ 10:46 AM PDT

Videobox 2.5.1 (Mac OS X)

A real quality product!

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Wednesday, March 19 2008 @ 10:45 AM PDT

Apple Safari 3.1 (Mac OS X)

Works OK on iMac 24" Core2 Duo, but seems slower

Previous version behaved as if it had a memory leak. After intensive use, my 4 GB Mac ground to a halt and had to be re-started with the power switch. I have just installed this new version, and have not had enough experience with it to know how it will behave, but initial impression is that it is somewhat slower than previous version. Also, it has other features like WebInspector under "Develop" menu item, and WebSnapper under "File," and I don't know what they all are, nor can I find any clue under "Help." As an aside, as browsers go, Flock is pretty slick, tough Safari is still my default browser. --Steve [alert admin]

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Wednesday, March 19 2008 @ 08:04 AM PDT

maileR 2.3.1 (Mac OS X)

Works just as advertised...WOW!

I downloaded this for the heck of it, and opened the app., and BOOM!, there was my gMail within seconds. No need to set anything up; no need to enter anything, ... I wonder how the app. "knew" that it was Google Mail that I wanted to see and not some other mail system like Yahoo! or HotMail. Unless gMail is the default, and of course, my Google cookies are already stored in Safari. I wonder if it can be used with several web-based mailers at once without having to change the preferences for each one. There seems to be room for only one at a time in the Preferences. Having more than one would be a nice development. I do not normally read gMail from the web, because I choose to use the POPmail option to download to my e-mail client (Eudora). But, I can see that if I am on the road and in a hurry, this little app. would be a neat tool to have at the ready. Can't beat the price, either! [alert admin]

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Monday, January 21 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST

Proteus 4.16 (Mac OS X)

Disappointing--cannot find "join group chat" for jabber

I have used Adium for over a year along with others in my policy group as a secondary communication channel during group teleconferences. My primary, and really only, use, therefore, is a group chat at a password-protected jabber conferencing site. I searched and searched the menus of Proteus, but I could not discover how to join a group chat room. I can do it easily with Adium and with Pidgin on my new ASUS Eee PC (Xandros Linux based). So, for me, Proteus is useless, as is Psi, because the latter does not support passworded logging into chat rooms. Also, when I tried to set up my jabber account with Proteus, I kept failing until finally I noticed that it was necessary to open another tab to enter the host name for my account. I had thought that it was implicit in my account name (user@host). Bottom line: Adium is still my chat client of choice for MacOS --Steve [alert admin]

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Friday, January 04 2008 @ 08:32 AM PST

iStocks Widget 0.2 (Mac OS X)

Works fine in Leopard

I had this widget working in Yahoo! Widgets in Tiger, but I can no longer get Yahoo! Widgets fully operational in Leopard. Missed being able to refer to it quickly. Also, except for the background color, it is virtually identical to the stock application on the iPhone. So, very happy to have this available now as an Apple Widget. Works just fine! Thanks to the authors! --Steve [alert admin]

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Sunday, November 11 2007 @ 10:34 AM PST

SoundSource 1.4 (Mac OS X)

Even better in Leopard!

Works fine in 10.5. Nicer menu bar icon, too. [alert admin]

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Sunday, November 04 2007 @ 02:45 PM PST

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Seemed to Install, but still not Flash content

The greyed-out QuickTime with a "?" haunts me all too often. I found two ways to recover from it: (1) remove the new plugins from /Library/Internet Plug-Ins [N.B., this is the Root Directory Folder, not your User Folder ~], or better yet, create a folder within that folder and name it "Disabled Plug-Ins," and move the suspect plug-ins into it, and (2) remove the Safari Preference, com.apple.Safari.plist, from your User Directory Library ~/Library/Preferences, and…

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Friday, May 16 2008 @ 09:07 AM PDT

YMMV, Re: FernDave's hack brings PithHelmet back to life w/ OS 10.4.7