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Gleam 1.1 (Mac OS X)
You get what you pay for; in this case, it cost nothing and the only thing it successfully completed was to bring my new 2ghz, dual core MacBook to its knees. Repeatedly. Both cores (nice work, guys!) and all my available RAM. In the words of the Jobsiathan: Boom. Never uploaded a single photo because, well, it couldn't. I trashed it and moved onto the simple but effective 1001. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, October 31 2006 @ 02:38 AM PST
Mellel 1.9.1 (Mac OS X)
I have purchased every version of Microsoft Word in the past ten years. I've written hundreds of thousands of words -- an entire novel -- in Word. And I just bought Mellel because it was faster, more focused, and forced me to spend less time futzing with the software and more time writing. More importantly, I spent fewer mental cycles coping with the software, and thus Mellel actually made me a better writer. I'm about to start on a major project (50,000 words anticipated), and I'm very happy to be doing it in Mellel (with Bookends). And at this price, what's the risk? [alert admin]
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Tuesday, October 04 2005 @ 03:53 PM PDT
WorkTimer 1.5.1 (Mac OS X)
I didn't need a billing application; I wanted something which I could use to keep track of how much time I spent on research, writing, grading student papers, and lecture prep. This fills the bill nicely and well-designed (though some useful information is strangely hidden in the about box). Simple, light, free. [alert admin]
Sunday, September 25 2005 @ 01:31 PM PDT
pzizz 1.5 (Mac OS X)
I downloaded and tried this out and, surprisingly, really liked it. I'm a lousy sleeper generally, but this allowed me to take a quick powernap mid-day, which really did leave me feeling better and more productive. I know it sounds like a cheesy app, but I was impressed. $40 impressed? I don't know yet, but maybe. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, April 12 2005 @ 11:08 PM PDT
Ulysses 1.1.1 (Mac OS X)
I had all but given up on this slick little app. For a small company with a new product (and only one), a more consistent update schedule, and more frequent, would go a long way to make me actually consider this very expensive plain text editor. A year ago, Ulysses was the only game in town for full-screen editing. No longer. And now there's this wimpy update. Alas, poor BlueTec. [alert admin]
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Thursday, March 31 2005 @ 01:34 PM PST
HumaneText.service 5.0 (Mac OS X)
Version four allowed, with some minor tweaks, support for Textile (in place of the default, equally excellent though different, Markdown). Version 5 removes that. Beware if you plan (as I did) to support Textile. Still great, but now I either need to hack it myself, beg for a fix, or learn a new syntax. Sigh. [alert admin]
Wednesday, February 23 2005 @ 11:29 PM PST
Adobe Reader 7.0.0 (Mac OS X)
As someone who reads a lot of academic journal articles via pdf (three cheers for JSTOR!), I this is a very, very, very nice update. In my quick use of Reader 7, it opened faster than Preview, which was my main gripe with version 6. No more staring at the uber-alpha-channel splash screen while waiting for the darned app to start. Fast, slick, smooth, and as good a pdf viewer as exists on any platform. It's my new default PDF app. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, December 21 2004 @ 11:38 AM PST
Assignment Planner 1.0b2 (Mac OS X)
Has potential, but not there yet 
Let's just say that even the readme says, "Put something here someday." This is software that's simply not yet ready for public consumption. It's missing some basic functionality (like editing assignment dates or names, the ability to distinguish visually completed from incomplete assignments) and would do well to add some slightly-more-advanced functionality (filter by class). As it stands, not even useable by high schoolers, let alone university-level students. Shows promise, and seems to be headed in the right direction. Still a ways to go, though. [alert admin]
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Saturday, September 04 2004 @ 11:22 AM PDT
Tofu 1.1.1 (Mac OS X)
This is wonderful. I'm a pretty accomplished on-screen reader; I've done it for years. But no one will say that reading on screen any lengthy text is easy or fun. You wind up wasting a lot of time and effort trying to find your place: every time you scroll a whole page there's a slight hunt to find your place again. Tofu eliminates this, beautifully and brilliantly. Not only is it easier to navigate the text, but narrower columns are faster reading (lots of research supports this). I like to use it full-screen and make the center column my active reading column. That gives me the freedom to refer to what I just read easily (it's on-screen in a column to the left) or glance ahead at what is coming up (it's on-screen to the right). It's as good as reading online could possibly be. With this application, I can see actually owning a Tablet computer. Presuming that Apple eventually makes one, that is. [alert admin]
Thursday, June 24 2004 @ 12:07 PM PDT
Microsoft Office 2004 11.0 (Mac OS X)
As a researcher and writer, I'm very, very happy with the fixes to Word in Office 2004. I thought Notebook view might be gimicky, but it turns out to be quite useful for organizing notes -- and that it's integrated with Word is a bonus. (I have thought about Notetaker and their ilk for a while, but they never seemed to entirely 'get it' -- for me, Notebook view in Word 'gets it.') It's faster all around, which makes me happy. Word feels lighter weight now, like it's more a transparent means for me to get my words out of my head and onto my machine. And unlike Word v. X (which was crashing pretty frequently lately), 2004 has been perfectly stable for me. Excel? Powerpoint? Whatever. Maybe they're better, but I don't really care. I was surprised to discover that I like Entourage now. I like the side-by-side layout, the ability to collapse each day's email, and the little transparent popup that tells me the subject lines of recently received emails (which fades away unobtrusively). It's like caller ID on your phone: maybe you want to answer it right now, maybe you don't, and Entourage gives just a quiet 'ahem' just in case. Very nice. And though I no longer work in an office with a team of people organizing projects, the new 'Project View' in Entourage is very handy. What's handy is setting up to-dos, calendar items, and notes and have them on a small palate off to the right while I'm working in Word. Somebody was thinking at MBU when these changes were put in. They're *not* just cosmetic improvements, but things that I'm already seeing increase my productivity. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, May 19 2004 @ 11:17 AM PDT
Last 10 Comments by terceiro [ Search for All ]
I may be nuts, but I kinda liked the brain-in-a-vat icon. It was cool in a creepy sort of way. The nautilus shell doesn't really illustrate that DT does, imho.
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Thursday, October 13 2005 @ 03:27 PM PDT
Installer freaked out rendering my system unstable....
Not to minimize your pain, but installing PHP and MySQL are made much, much, much easier using the wonderful "Complete" packages available here at VT. I was able to install Apache 2, PHP, and MySQL perfectly in under 30 minutes (roughly). Now, configuring them is another issue altogether. But installing: piece o' cake. Sorry about you system frying, though.
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Monday, March 15 2004 @ 09:09 PM PST
