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User Name supercrisp1
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Total number of Feedback Posts: 9
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GlimmerBlocker 1.4.1 (Mac OS X)
This product replaces my previous ad blocker and URL shortcut add-ons, SafariBlock and Sogudi. When Apple gave input managers the heave-ho, I had to find something else, and this was the only free option. So I tried it. It's perfect. It's easy to configure, and the ads it chooses to block seem to be reasonable. I still get ads, but the annoying or NSFW ones aren't there anymore. If that's not good enough, you can configure it to block more ads. I recommend trying it. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, October 06 2009 @ 01:07 PM PDT
Books 3.1.1 (Mac OS X)
So far Books is a pretty nice application. Its interface is easy to use, and it seems fairly customizalbe. It does have some omissions that seem strange to me, such as no standard fields for any sort of catalog number like Dewey or Library of Congress. It has also has no standard field for price, and the main reason I need a book catalog is for insurance purposes. And, like many similar book catalog apps, it has a field for reviews, which seems odd to me for an app catalog books owned, but maybe that's not how a lot of folks use it? Books separates info about a book into several panes, which provides a less cluttered view but far less information. I can imagine that this would get to be a problem if you had to enter many books by hand, or if your need for a particular field doens't match the developer's understanding of the field's priority. However, this app is pretty polished at this point. [alert admin]
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Sunday, September 23 2007 @ 07:05 AM PDT
WiFiScriptor 0.2 (Mac OS X)
This is harder in Mac OS than it should be.
I wish the OS provided us such a hook. However, I've been using applescript to do this. I don't know who originally wrote this code snippet, but I think I picked it up over on macosxhints: do shell script "system_profiler SPAirPortDataType|awk -F\": \" '/Current Wireless Network/{print $2}' -- this will return you the SSID which you can use to detect your home or other network. I use it to mount volumes and run backups when I get home and to put away some elements of my movie collection when my work SSID is detected ;-) [alert admin]
Sunday, April 08 2007 @ 06:46 AM PDT
Tribal Trouble 1.5 (Mac OS X)
Be careful installing the update. You may want to control click to show package contents on your existing install first to find your campaign files if you have any saved. I lost mine just after getting the Islanders campaigns unlocked. Darn. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, January 09 2007 @ 11:23 AM PST
Apple Security Update 2006-005 (Mac OS X)
This update caused my iBook G4 to take about twenty minutes to restart. I rebooted the machine into Safe Mode after the twenty minutes, and then rebooted the regular way and all was fine. I don't know if my machine hung, or if I interrupted a permissions reset. [alert admin]
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Thursday, September 21 2006 @ 03:52 PM PDT
Lineform 1.2 (Mac OS X)
I like this application because it's quick with a small resource footprint (iBook user), but it's interface isn't quite like the standards I'm used to from Freehand, Illustrator, and MacDraw II. I don't draw much these days, but this program seems to forge some new ground needlessly in terms of how you constrain lines, how lines are highlight, how you finish Bezier curves. This is a bit frustrating if you need a small, light application for quick jobs, which is the niche this is going for. Why learn new tricks when the old ones are solid? And like most Freeverse products, the price is a little silly; why should this cost so much more than the much-more-capable-for-its-niche GraphicConverter? I will be sticking with the less capable but (barely) adequate tools in the gray-haired old AppleWorks. [alert admin]
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Monday, September 18 2006 @ 07:31 PM PDT
Plantasia 1.0 (Mac OS X)
Since you can’t really tell what this is from the description, here’s some stuff clipped from the readme: Help Holly fix up the gardens. Fix a garden by repairing all of the garden statues. To be able to repair the statues, you must first earn enough Mana by harvesting flowers. [Click and click to grow flowers.] Harvest chains of the same colored plants for a point bonus. The longer the chain, the bigger the bonus. Score even bigger bonuses with chains of the same plant type. [...] Fairy dust circles give you a point bonus for planting and harvesting when you grow a plant of the same color here. Flowers planted on Fairy dust circles grow faster and larger. [alert admin]
Monday, July 24 2006 @ 06:28 PM PDT
Azureus BitTorrent Client 2.4.0.2 (Mac OS X)
I love all the customization Azureus offers. SafePeer is especially important to me, as is the ability to use other plugins. I also like the way I can bias my up bandwidth toward towards certain torrents (like ones with few other seeds or Mac-oriented torrents). A lot of people are mentioning footprint, so here are my numbers: it sucks up about 220 megs of RAM and 15-20% of a single G4 500MHz processor. OTOH, you can run it on an old machine, like a beige G3, and just let it sit there doing its job. Some people might be intimidated at first by all the options, but the set-up for basic use is only a few steps that are well-explained. [alert admin]
Monday, April 17 2006 @ 05:54 PM PDT
Adobe Reader 7.0.7 (Mac OS X)
I use Acrobat Pro a lot for literature review. I’ve had few troubles with version until this one, which seems to crash about every third or fourth time I highlight some text. In addition this version doesn’t correctly zoom the document window when returning to normal view from fullscreen view. That’s not really much of an issue, but the constant crashing is. [alert admin]
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Thursday, March 16 2006 @ 03:22 PM PST
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I have a MacBook Pro that came out this summer, the 15" lower-end model with the NVIDIA GeForce 9400M. The previous (2.1b3) and the current (2.1b4) versions of Onyx work fine for me under Leopard and Snow Leopard. I've only used it to set a few parameters for the Dock and the new Quicktime player (what's up with those rounded corners?) and to clear caches once. This is not to gainsay anyone else's experience, but it works…
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Saturday, October 10 2009 @ 02:25 PM PDT
Brrrrp's objections strike me as absurd. I had no trouble figuring out GlimmerBlocker, and I wasn't in a patient mood, with a crying baby, a stack of forms to fill out, and a long list of Snow Leopard incompatibilities to sort out. Do preference panes throw up a warning dialog? I don't recall. But I think that suggesting that the author of GB is intentionally circumventing such a warning seems quite paranoid. It's freeware. If you don't…
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Tuesday, October 06 2009 @ 01:02 PM PDT
Do you have a different version of Bean than I do? Using the current non-beta version, I find that Bean says it can't open .docx. Are you sure you're not intending the Word 03 .XML file-type?
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Monday, January 26 2009 @ 04:58 AM PST
Well, aren't the odds of rolling a two with a pair of dice 35 to 1?
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Wednesday, January 21 2009 @ 01:09 PM PST
Not cheap, but worth the price
They do offer a significant educational discount. And is a very good piece of software for outlining, better than any other I can find, and I keep my eyes open for new alternatives because outlining is so important to me. I use OmniOutliner not only to plan my scholarly writing but also to create syllabuses, lesson plans, and handouts.
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Friday, October 24 2008 @ 07:28 AM PDT
I read on their forums that they forgot to enable Altivec optimizations on the last build of 0.9.2. Reverting to 0.8.something fixed the problem for me. I'm looking forward to seeing how this version of VLC does on my old iBook.
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Saturday, September 27 2008 @ 06:06 AM PDT
Waste of Money - Leopard's Preview Does Everything This Does
No doubt, Preview has improved significantly for Leopard users. However, this application still does some things Preview doesn't. Also this application existed before the improved Preview and works on Tiger. So it's quite unreasonable to lash out at the developer as if he were a thief. I'm completely unbiased on this, as I use Acrobat Pro and don't know the developer from Adam.
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Tuesday, July 22 2008 @ 03:16 PM PDT
It is good to have the same unzipper on both Mac and Windows
I just compared this to Betterzip, and the only feature difference I see is that Betterzip has an option to omit filetypes from archives based on a filename pattern match. Am I missing some other differences?
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Saturday, June 14 2008 @ 11:08 AM PDT
I agree Azureus can be a hog, but the geeky prefs pains and Vuze interface can both be dealt with by consulting the really excellent wikis for the app. I keep trying to replace it too, but Azureus simply offers functions that I like too much as they're implemented in Azureus, like SafePeer, web UI, traffic shaping, control over which torrents to seed and why, and so on. I've never had to deal with the…
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Saturday, January 12 2008 @ 07:58 AM PST
I was playing computer games 20 years ago. 1987. Little colored boxes. You need a bugectomy.
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Saturday, October 27 2007 @ 06:53 AM PDT
