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User Name steeldriver
Member Since 2001-04-23
Total number of Feedback Posts: 5
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Pipette 1.0r1 (Mac OS X)
I chanced across this application, and intend to install it. But I looked here first for reviews, and find the VT page is outdated. Pipette is freeware offered as Universal Binary, and in separate downloads for either Intel- or Power PC-based Macs. Presumably a concession to anyone still dialing up for an Internet connection. Though I have yet to install and use it, I expect it will accomplish the pixel-exact color selection I lacked previously – because VT users of Pipette say so. [alert admin]
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Monday, September 17 2007 @ 01:34 PM PDT
TechTool Pro 4.5.2 (Mac OS X)
Everthing I expected from Micromat 
Noting that all gripes ceased and vanished from VT Feedback after Micromat offered the upgrade from 4.5.1 to 4.5.2 as a free download, I wonder why none of the gripes have been replaced with praise in the past four months. I have relied on TechTool Pro for years, and gladly paid the upgrade fee ($25) to adapt my existing 4.0.x version to an Intel-capable version. Recently I needed to confirm my late-2006 iMac hardware is fully functional, and had only the PPC version of TechTool Pro on hand. Micromat shipped the DVD promptly, my Core 2 Duo CPUs and everything else passed without a red mark anywhere. I re-checked software and discovered my mistake in Startup Items (system) preferences. If I had time, I could have sought out all the freeware and shareware others mentioned. But getting it all in a bundle, a single DVD, let me focus on the many other issues -- most of them not related to Macs or Mac OS X -- that take most of my time. Like the user-friendly Macs we all admire and depend on, TechTool Pro delivers everything seamlessly, ready to use and well supported when a dysfunction arises. [alert admin]
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Monday, March 26 2007 @ 12:31 PM PDT
Yahoo! Messenger X 2.5.3 (Mac OS X)
Yahoo! Messenger a sorry medium
Yahoo! Messenger 2.5.3 is just plain ancient, and I didn't notice -- or care -- until resuming use recently because both sons and their wives are thousands of miles away. The farther family, overseas since October, gave every household a web cam for Christmas, and said we all could get together using Yahoo! Now I find that Yahoo! isn't nearly as comprehensive as I previously thought. Messenger in its 2003 version for OS X is just plain primitive. So, I join others posting here in a call for a modern Mac OS version, for Messenger first. Then, Yahoo!, get going with other facets of your expanding portal services, and assure that Mac OS X is supported equally to Windoze. Indeed, you probably should look for a Linux capability or risk the fate of CP/M applications in the pre-Windows years. Because as widely used as it is, Windows has some major opposition -- and some is in nations where Mac OS X is thriving, as is Linux in some countries. [alert admin]
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Saturday, January 29 2005 @ 06:18 PM PST
GraphicConverter 5.2.1 (Mac OS X)
Graphic Converter continues as the exemplar for all shareware, and for most commercial publishers, too. Most recently GC's customer support has induced me to praise it, and GC's author, again. I asked a question about a function I had never before used, and why a particular feature wasn't included. The polite, concise response from Herr Lemke himself said all I need do is upgrade to 5.2.1 to discover that feature added to Graphic Converter. His valuable assistance was provided on the weekend, leading me to guess that he has no backlog of inquiries, that GC rarely confuses or stymies its multitude of users. [alert admin]
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Monday, July 05 2004 @ 06:37 AM PDT
GraphicConverter X 4.5.3 (Mac OS X)
THE image editor for Mac, and Thorsten just keeps makin' it better. [alert admin]
Saturday, February 01 2003 @ 06:42 PM PST
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Display problems in Firefox 2.0.0.16
Cannot recall whether Firefox 2.x caused any display rendering problems. Might I suggest you upgrade to v. 3.0.x (currently just upped to x=2), because I doubt you will find much help for so old a version of Firefox
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Wednesday, September 24 2008 @ 01:37 AM PDT
And hats off to VT administrator, who updated the link and the listing of Mac OS X versions that Pipette supports – all in the 45 seconds or so I took to post my original note. Nicely done!
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Monday, September 17 2007 @ 01:37 PM PDT
Have to agree with Capt. reply. I used ver. 2.7 until upgrading to an iMac-Intel, and didn't even attempt to upgrade because ftp isn't useful as much to me any more. But as a former user, an e-mail invitation to upgrade now found me ready to rejoin their registry. And starting up v. 4.5 after downloading it was as easy ss described at their Web site. Like many application downloads, just open the .dmg, open…
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Tuesday, December 12 2006 @ 09:27 PM PST
