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User Name tokere
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AnalyzeText 1.0 (Mac OS X)
A warm thanks to the developer - An application such is this is what I have been hoping for since I started with OS X 10.1. I will use it for qualitative analysis of fieldwork translations. It is the first serious attempt to make a 'computer assisted qualitative data analysis software' (CAQDAS) program that uses the powers of OS X. There are two other competitors, Hyperresearch and TAMS, both cross platform. TAMS is very advanced, but lacking in the user interface department and in the utilization of native cocoa element. The carbon-based Hyperresearch has been stalled in development for years, with focus on the Windows version and still lagging in comparison with its Windows competitors. As such, I would suggest some future improvements for this app: - hierarchical comments, and/or hierarchical folders. This would allow for a manual meta-analysis of comments and for making higher order themes visible in the text. - Support for "smart folders" that autoupdate as you update your comments, like in the Smart folders in the Finder, Mail, etc.. - A project approach, rather than single document one. In my case (and in many other kinds of text analysis) I need to analyze several different text sources. - Support for more formats, ie. RTF and DOC. Almost all my text is in one of those formats, RTF being the standard format on OS X, and Word THE document standard on Windows. It seems very strange not to include support for them, at least as import possibilities. Another argument in favor of native RTF support is that bold headlines, names, etc. are sometimes useful metainformation when reading a text, hence important to textanalysis. - A 'report' facility that would sum up the comments of a text (oops, just read the 'coming' features, thats what I meant). ... And this is just the short list. As you might guess from this, I think the price is a bit steep for what I consider basic functionality. Toke [alert admin]
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Friday, January 06 2006 @ 01:55 AM PST
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fbc: There is an OS X browser that fullfills all your requirements: Safari. The freeware app "Pithhelmet" does the job very well for Safari, integrating nicely in the browser prefs :-) [alert admin]
Wednesday, June 25 2003 @ 03:52 AM PDT
Mellel 1.5 (Mac OS X)
a free filter, called AntiWordService, that allows cocoa applications -like Mellel and Nissus - to open Word documents, although it is done without the formatting. But it gives a basic access to Word files. Get it at: http://www.devon-technologies.com/download.html. Mellel is such a relieve to try after years of the slow and unneccesary complicated Word. [alert admin]
Tuesday, March 11 2003 @ 10:36 AM PST
Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 6.0 (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X)
some people can rate this with 4-5 stars. This piece of software is simply not finished. It "forgets" files in a site, it crashes, it has really slow loading, it has terribly slow perfomance, simple text formatting takes forever, etc.. Search and replace is much slower than in the previous version for OS 9. The only good about this app is the amount of features and the extensability.... But that is no help when you just can't rely on it for real work. Macromedia: Please release a non-beta, final version of DW. [alert admin]
Tuesday, November 12 2002 @ 06:08 AM PST
TAMS Analyzer 1.0a8 (Mac OS X)
- it seems to be not quite commercial grade, like Atlas.ti or Nvivo - but hey, the price tag is ok. Btw, the only currently updated alternative for OS X is hyperresearch 2.x at a standard $644.00 pricetag - and it only runs in classic mode. [alert admin]
Saturday, November 09 2002 @ 11:18 AM PST
ecOrganizer 1.5v5 (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X)
use am/pm here in Denmark, Europe. In fact (almost) only english speaking countries use am/pm.. [alert admin]
Friday, October 11 2002 @ 08:03 AM PDT
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