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User Name srogers4_dotmac
Member Since 2004-03-12
Total number of Feedback Posts: 8
Total number of comments: 5
Last 10 Feedback Posts by srogers4_dotmac [ Search for All ]
MenuShade 1.1 (Mac OS X)
I used Menushade without problems under Tiger, but after updating to Leopard it crashes a few seconds after launch. Same behavior on Intel MacBook Pro and G5 Powermac. If anyone knows a solution or source of the conflict, please post. [alert admin]
Monday, January 28 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
Radar In Motion 2.4 (Mac OS X)
Great Tool - "Save Maps for n Hours" not working though
I use this a lot - very useful. One of the nicer features is the ability to save the images over time rather than to see just the last 5 or so images. However, this feature has been broken for me for a while. It doesn't seem to be able to distinguish new images from the ones it's stored, so it winds up with a huge cache of repeating images. This worked for a while in 2.3.2, so maybe something changed about the data format on the source sites? Even with that feature broken, it's very useful. [alert admin]
Saturday, January 27 2007 @ 05:54 AM PST
SmartSVN Professional 2.0.3 (Mac OS X)
I tried SmartSVN back in the 1.x versions and gave up on it because the UI was so awkward. However, things have gotten much better in version 2. There are still some significant issues in the way you identify working directories and switch between them. The selector is awkward and though you can edit the names of items in your Project Manager, you can't see the full path without opening them individually. The file browser insists on showing the full path to the top level of the working directory, which is completely pointless and ensures that in most cases you won't be able to see the most important part of the path - the directory you're actually in. However, if you name the project by its directory, you can see this in the window title bar. Otherwise, the layout is pretty good. Viewing files and seeing the history of changes in each update is very convenient. The repository browser is very handy also. (this refers to the free version) [alert admin]
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Saturday, July 29 2006 @ 09:29 PM PDT
SvnX 0.9.8 (Mac OS X)
Nice GUI, functionality getting more solid 
I've been using SvnX for quite a while. It has one of the better UI designs among SVN clients, but I've always had trouble with it just going off in the weeds while browsing the repository - have to cancel and retry frequently to get it to update. However, this seems much better in the current 0.9.8 release. I'd spent some time working with SmartSVN, even though I find the GUI to be inferior because clicking on a folder in SvnX and waiting forever-and-ever for the contents to be fetched from the repository makes SvnX really difficult to use - particularly for operations like "move" where you have to navigate to a target. But now that this problem is fixed, I'm back with SvnX. The documentation is not very good, and the forums at the developer site seem to be frozen, so there's practically no formal or informal help. However, its pretty easy to use. [alert admin]
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Saturday, July 29 2006 @ 09:00 PM PDT
AlmostVPN 0.9.5 (Mac OS X)
Great Concept - slightly rickety
This is a really really cool concept. The pref panel + widget is seriously easy to manage and convenient as heck. However, I had difficulty getting the widget to respond to clicks in a consistent way, and its visual feedback on buttons is not too hot. Also, the program seems to use CPU like crazy, which is not that great, considering how much CPU a tunnel created on the command line uses. If they can get the cooties out, this will be great. I give it 4 stars because the concept is so good that its usable even with some cooties. The documentation is pretty good (if perhaps a bit verbose), but strangely it doesn't cover the widget at all. I guess they think it is intuitively obvious. [alert admin]
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Sunday, December 04 2005 @ 09:52 PM PST
SSH Tunnel Manager 2b3 (Mac OS X)
This is a great program idea with a nicely laid out interface, but its just not done yet. It works really well with only one host, but if you have multiple hosts and do some adding/removing of local and/or remote info, then you start seeing weird behavior - like the connection parameters hop from one host to another. Too bad the programmer never finished it, because its on the way to being great. [alert admin]
Sunday, December 04 2005 @ 04:17 PM PST
Visual Paradigm for UML 4.1 (Mac OS X)
The download link takes you to a form on the developers web site for downloading a combined package of *all* their products, rather than downloading the specific UML modeling product mentioned above. The download requires specifying which of six different versions you want (Enterprise, personal modeler, etc), indicating that the community edition is the one that is free. If you browse the site a bit to see the difference between versions, you'll find that the community edition is crippleware, restricted to one diagram of each type per project. This is not really a totaly free UML modeling program, as the description indicates. Its a limited trial version, and limited in such a way that it would be difficult to use for even a "toy" project. The only thing this download is really useful for is a trial to see if you would like to buy it (that's clearly the intent of the limitation), hence it should be called a free TRIAL version, and not toll in VersionTracker browsers with the false impression of a fully functional UML modeling program for free. [alert admin]
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Sunday, February 27 2005 @ 08:54 AM PST
Fire 1.5.1 (Mac OS X)
Great improvements but slow connect
This is the best version of Fire yet. The only drawback is that it takes a long time for the services to connect. And I mean a loooooong time - 30 seconds to maybe a minute. It may seem like its hung up, but if you just let it run, it will eventually connect. The tabbed chat window is great - well worth putting up with the long connect time. [alert admin]
Tuesday, February 01 2005 @ 09:40 PM PST
Last 10 Comments by srogers4_dotmac [ Search for All ]
Window version always ahead and more stable! Why is that???
actually, there's an article in Tech Crunch describing Mac-only features in the latest version: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/11/skype-for-mac-26-with-mac-exclusive-feature/
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Thursday, April 12 2007 @ 07:51 AM PDT
Can someone please explain what this developer is talking about?????
You can't understand what its about because they have to use complex indirect language to disguise this stupid approach to "investigating" bad philosophy as a legitimate research project. It's based on two stupid ideas that are conjoined together to create a colosal absurdity so immense that reading about it could take 5 points off your IQ - so don't say I didn't warn you. First, they start with the silly idea that there's a Global…
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Friday, March 31 2006 @ 06:47 AM PST
Well, that's wrong because in either case, you're running totally unknown software from an unknown source. What difference does it make whether you're running an installer or not when you're running a *program* you don't know anything about! This whole shareware thing is built on trust. If you want the level of security provided by not running installers, you certainly should not download software from the net that isn't written by a trusted source. Or…
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Monday, November 28 2005 @ 07:56 AM PST
Like hypercard, only completely different, and not as good
MetaCard is $995, DreamCard is $99, and SuperCard is $179. I should hope all these programs are better, since they cost significantly more.
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Saturday, June 18 2005 @ 04:30 PM PDT
Do these guys read their web site?
Yes - there's no help for the application either. Its fairly straightforward, and you can dig it out yourself with a few minutes work; but still, it would be nice to have a coherent description of what the program actually does.
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Monday, April 11 2005 @ 07:25 AM PDT
