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User Name thomem
Member Since 2001-02-24
Total number of Feedback Posts: 41
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FolderGlance 2.1.0 (Mac OS X)
v2.0 caused me problems by disabling the file rename cursor and highlighing, making it impossible to see what one is doing in renaming a file in the Finder. This on a MacBook Pro. Thought it was Leopard until I thought to disable FolderGlance. Problem solved. v2.1 does not fully correct the problem, though it may have reduced it somewhat. [alert admin]
Tuesday, September 02 2008 @ 09:57 AM PDT
Synk Backup 6.0.3 (Mac OS X)
Home folder ok; bootable system not yet ready 
If you have realized how great it would be to have a current bootable system on an external drive, keep looking (hint: SuperDuper). Synk is ok and I've used it for a long time for home folder backups. But it isn't quite ready to do the whole enchilada for you. Then again, neither is Apple's own Backup 3.0... And yes, that new hierarchical log needs an "expand all" function. It'll drive you nuts... [alert admin]
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Tuesday, February 20 2007 @ 10:39 AM PST
ProjectForum 5.1.2 (Mac OS X)
I've been playing with Wikipedia, Wikia, VoodoPad, and several free wiki services for months. Excepting VoodooPad, they all seemed klunky, counterintuitive, and hacker-oriented. Now along comes Project Forum (with SSH) or Course Forum (w/o SSH) and it's an epiphany. It's a wiki you download and have up and running in literally 5 min. And then you are immediately busy with the web-only interface figuring out how to organize it to your purposes, with zero learnng curve in terms of getting it to do the basic wiki thing of creating linked pages that anyone can edit. It's a very different self-contained proprietary approach to wikis that won't appeal to free/open software hounds who relish hacking the thing into existence. It WILL appeal to folks who just want to get on with finding out what a wiki can do for collaborative efforts. And for what it does, the price is reasonable, particularly if security is not a high priority, as for education. Of course the real epiphany is a web page that can be edited in place by the viewer. Why no one thought that was important for the first 15 years of the web (except for Ward Cunningham, of course), I cannot imagine. Having brought 5 or 6 project groups into existence in one day and one weekend of fiddling around, I can't imagine having much interest in any other web site creation approach in the future. Good grief! No more color coded html! No more SFTP tools or reloads. Hit save changes, and the page appears. This changes everything in a way comparable to the first text editors! A few more detailed impressions: * zero user interface application; everything is done via a browser. * you may need some help proxying the server so that it works with your existing port 80 web server. Each setup differs enough that general instructions are not quite general. * site changes are reported with page names (or full contents if security not an issue) in automatic RSS feeds. Monitor activity with an RSS news reader. How cool is that!? * image and file attachment uploads of course! * tagging text as a link automatically creates a page of the same name * supports wikis within wikis that are within the site, each administered separately. * excellent online help, with hint buttons in critical places, downloadable userguide, and FAQ in depth. * Online forum and email support are very responsive. Downsides: * 508 compliance documentation does not exist yet * minor problems with different browsers; alignment or graphics. [alert admin]
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Monday, September 18 2006 @ 05:47 PM PDT
Zoe 0.5.7 (Mac OS X)
If Gmail (Google Mail) takes off, perhaps Zoe should get a second look. It does basically the same thing on your desk where you can have all the disk space you want, and no one will be snooping through your email trying to figure out what you might buy if the right advertisement was flashed. i played with Zoe back around v.0.2, but didn't get hooked. I think i'd rather have the best of both worlds: able to file email in folders as well as being able to search it. An excellent search engine would make it less pressing to file everything however, which would be a relief, though. [alert admin]
Sunday, April 11 2004 @ 11:54 AM PDT
Intaglio 1.6.3 (Mac OS X)
Amazing features for graphic manipulation
A few things that seem to distinguish this program: - use of pdf as a native format, not seen outside of Illustrator - ability to shear a bitmap graphic! you can easily generate 3D cutaways from views of orthogonal planes. Just shear them appropriatly and paste together. Incredible! - Simplicity! No need for a steep learning curve before getting useful things done. - If all you need are bitmaps for Powerpoint, you needn't register. You can do screen captures... [alert admin]
Monday, December 08 2003 @ 05:25 PM PST
MailTuner 1.01 (Mac OS X)
This immediately fixed the extremely slow Address Book I've been complaining about ever since I switched from Entourage and imported 1000+ contacts. I was also getting slowdowns in Mail, and I am SO glad to be rid of those problems. And I'm running Panther, so it seems to work ok in some circumstances at least. Another great example of creative programmers helping Apple fix it's problems! [alert admin]
Sunday, December 07 2003 @ 08:58 AM PST
SwapTop 1.9.2 (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X)
for the fact that SwapTop can no longer automatically download daily pictures. Webshots not only refuses to supply a competent program for the Mac, but they have interfered with this effort to fill the void, forcing removal of the auto download and export desktop functions. There is a Webshots Mac beta with rudimentary functionality, but nothing compared with what it should be, and no multiple monitor support. [alert admin]
Saturday, December 06 2003 @ 05:33 PM PST
Xupport 2.0b1 (Mac OS X)
Damages prebindings rather than fixing them
I tried this and ran the prebinding maintenance. The next thing I know a number of appications (or was it just MS Office ones?) do not recognize their files. The resulting inconvenience is simply not tolerable so I won't be using this any more until there are promises that has been fixed. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, October 28 2003 @ 07:00 AM PST
MenuMeters 1.1 (Mac OS X)
This a great utility that helps one to recognize problems before they get out of hand and force a logout or a restart. It's easy to spot when some process is taking more CPU than it should, and idenify it by pulling up the process viewer from the menu. Then the offending task can be terminated before it causes more problems. Memory, disk and network useage are similarly diagnosed. How can this be free? [alert admin]
Sunday, September 21 2003 @ 09:57 AM PDT
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me daily backups to firewire disk, using Cronnix to automate it. But the latest Apple security update (March 2003), I think, has broken Synk's ability to automount volumes using the keychain. Anyhow, that's probably the nail in the coffin for me, if this won't be fixed by anyone. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, April 01 2003 @ 05:14 AM PST
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RE: This would be a great program if
Yes, NoteShare is designed to address the multiuser issues, though it may be better to use a wiki-like tool for group collaboration (and perhaps NoteShare is such a tool). I've been using ProjectForum.com and it is very nice. The worst aspect of the NoteTaker interface, IMHO, is the toolbar. If Aquaminds would adopt the Apple toolbar configuration scheme, it would be much easier to use and configure. There's room for improvement in wiki-like behavior. For…
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Monday, September 25 2006 @ 10:22 AM PDT
