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User Name swsd
Member Since 2003-10-09
Total number of Feedback Posts: 6
Total number of comments: 1
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MenuMeters 1.3 (Mac OS X)
excellent -but throughput looks wrong
I highly recommend this little application. It gives an idea of what is going on that can be very important when you are on a dial-up modem and nothing seems to be happening. However, I routinely connect my G4 powerbook at 28 to 31 kb/s here in Mexico but Menu meters gives me a very optimistic throughput of up to 6 kB/s with a 2 sec update interval. I also am confused about the meaning of the colors used in the memory usage pie chart (active, wired, inactive). However, when the pie is "full" I guess that I should not open more applications. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, May 31 2006 @ 03:16 PM PDT
MenuMeters 1.3 (Mac OS X)
excellent -but throughput looks wrong
I highly recommend this little application. It gives an idea of what is going on that can be very important when you are on a dial-up modem and nothing seems to be happening. However, I routinely connect my G4 powerbook at 28 to 31 kb/s here in Mexico but Menu meters gives me a very optimistic throughput of up to 6 kB/s with a 2 sec update interval. I also am confused about the meaning of the colors used in the memory usage pie chart (active, wired, inactive). However, when the pie is "full" I guess that I should not open more applications. [alert admin]
Wednesday, May 31 2006 @ 03:13 PM PDT
iClock 3.0.3 (Mac OS X)
I have used iClock (just for its convenient date and time display in the menu bar) for around a year and upgraded as new releases were published. Today a new window popped up on my screen with a long list of why I should upgrade to 3.0.3. I was in the middle of a job and this window was impossible to dismiss - no close or minimize buttons - and it was always in front of everything else. IClock would not let me quit from its pulldown menu and I had to resort to quitting by using Activity Monitor and by doing a restart. I really resent developers pulling these tricks to get my attention- especially when I am working on critical stuff. Goodbye iClock. I will find a replacement for you. [alert admin]
Saturday, March 11 2006 @ 07:29 PM PST
WeatherLink 5.0.3 (Mac OS X)
There has to be better software than this 
I have used the terrible version 5.0.2 for around a year. When I upgraded from OS 10.4.2 to 10.4.3 it finally became totally "disfunctional" I could download data from my Vantage Pro wireless station but virtually nothing else. Even the red "close" boxes stopped working. I am now testing 5.0.3 and its basic features seem to work. However, I have to agree with all the other people here who criticize this software. It is terrible and non-Mac intuitive. I would be prepared to pay good money for a true Mac application that could download the station data in a spreadsheet format, make decent quality graphs and upload selected current and historical data items to my website. If there is anyone out there that is in the same situation, can you post here and let's see if someone will take up the challenge. There have been around 260 downloads of this version in a month and, I would suspect, 260 dissatisfied users. Tony [alert admin]
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Monday, November 07 2005 @ 02:55 PM PST
Weather Now 1.4 (Mac OS X)
unexpected quit with 10.3.9 system
I use the Davis Weatherlink 5 with my Vantage Pro system - it works but is inelegant. I thought I would try this package and got the same NilObjectException on trying to open preferences (OS 10.3.9). I would love to have this product work and am eager to buy it if it will allow me to put basic weather info on my website via FTP. [alert admin]
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Sunday, June 12 2005 @ 04:17 PM PDT
Eudora 6.2.1 (Mac OS X)
Eudora - needs multiple address and better relay support
I have used Eudora since the mid 80's and although it is far from perfect, I would not swap it for any other mail program. I am relieved to find that this new version now allows me to use the Mac OSX address book. I wish it were the only thing it would use! What I sorely need, however, is to be able to have a drop-down menu of alternate email addresses for an individual. I find I have to guess at nicknames to see if they expand to the correct address. Occasionally I just give up and open the address book. Another problem that I have is the "smtp relay personality". I have nine email accounts on five different servers. Some require authentication, one requires pop before smtp. There seems to be no good way of reliably switching from one smtp server to another - a job I often have to do 2-3 times a day as I visit different offices. If ONLY Eudora could read the "location" information in my Apple menu and select the appropriate smtp server...... I also wish there were a simple way of changing between "Send" and "Queue" for outgoing mail - sometimes I am on a modem and sometimes on wireless and it is frustrating to see error messages spawning when I happen to be offline but Eudora is active. Surely it could check to see if an internet connection is active before trying to send or pick up mail? Overall, I think the program is fair value for the money and I will continue to support it if the developer will make these needed changes. [alert admin]
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Saturday, June 11 2005 @ 11:36 PM PDT
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Silly behavior of "silent" upgrading. Why don't they renumber it 4.3.1?
I am really upset. I installed this in place of my existing version (which did indeed have the choke problem on large transfers) and it erased all my settings, and saved favorites, and shortcuts, and serial number. Off I go to Transmit.
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Friday, October 21 2005 @ 03:03 PM PDT
