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Bento 1.0v2 R1 (Mac OS X)
Why must we re-enter our personal info to get an update?
I'm running V1.0 and I noticed r2 here on VT tonight. I went to get the update and was presented with the "signup screen" where you need to enter all your personal info yet again. No way! Then I tried Bento's "Check for updates" menu selection and all that told me was that I was up to date. There shouldn't be a need to force current beta users to jump through hoops just to update the release. [alert admin]
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Monday, November 19 2007 @ 09:36 PM PST
Hazel 2.1.1 (Mac OS X)
To the guy who is too cheap to even take a look at this (Joe): If you'd not spend so much time trying to get around the anti-piracy issue, you'd find yourself enjoying this program.
To the guy whose cutoff point for shareware is $10 (Andrew): If that's your cutoff point, that's up to you but I'll tell you that you're missing out on this great application as well as a slew of many others that are $25 and under. I don't give myself a cutoff point but rather I try individual apps and if I really like them and find them very useful, then I buy, whatever the price. Some apps I've bought multiple licenses simply to support the developer. [alert admin]
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Monday, November 05 2007 @ 07:51 PM PST
Hazel 2.1.1 (Mac OS X)
I have been using Hazel for a couple of months now and find that it, more than any other application, has helped organize my Desktop and Documents folders. My wife was pretty impressed so I bought a license for her Mac as well. Now we can actually see the Desktop pattern that once was covered by hundreds of docs and folders.
OK, so the license scheme isn't much to our liking but I look at it this way: The developer wants to be sure that he's compensated for his time. He is extremely responsive to questions and provided me with a couple of quick tips when I was desperate. One of my problems was quickly resolved and incorporated in the next release.
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Monday, November 05 2007 @ 07:48 PM PST
Integrity 1.3.1 (Mac OS X)
After submitting the previous comments I went back to Integrity and again looked to see if there was a means of saving the results. I indeed found that under the File menu was now the "export" command that gave several options, including text and html. I saved to HTML and this looks good. Now I can troubleshoot at leisure. Sorry to have misled anyone earlier! -Tod [alert admin]
Saturday, April 07 2007 @ 10:00 PM PDT
Integrity 1.3.1 (Mac OS X)
This is one great application... 
...but it needs a few minor tweaks. I downloaded and tried it out tonight and was quite impressed with what it does. It took my site <http://www.ecphorizer.com/EPS/> and ground away for about 35 minutes, checking 2800 of 2802 (!) links on my ezine site. Becuase it's an ezine, it has lots of interrelated links within the site and whenever i upload a new issue, it's such a pain to double check all links within that issue. Integrity did it all for me and found a number of missing/broken links, most of which are links to external sites that had gone stale. I have a couple of suggestion for the developer, who has no direct contact listed at her own web site: 1. Let us know how we can report feature requests and problems. 2. Feature request: Provide some way of saving the log of broken links, either to a text file or an HTML file or something. 3. Several times during the check, Integrity seemed to simply stop though the spinning wheel at the bottom kept spinning. I resolved this by clicking the Stop button, then clicking the "Continue" button. This happened at odd intervals so I can't provide any further info. 4. At this point, the spinning ball is still spinning at the bottom and the field next to it states "2800 of 2802 links checked." I have no idea how many actual links I have on this site but I wonder why has it stopped now and what happened to the last two links? There are no unchecked links on display. I'm giving this a 4 for now and I'm sure it will be a 5-star app very soon. [alert admin]
Saturday, April 07 2007 @ 09:44 PM PDT
Formation 1.1.4 (Mac OS X)
On This Day in History (Feb 23 2006) Bryan Loony wrote the following on his Radical Sleaze blog:
When we entered February we had three clear goals in mind:
1) Release Footlights 2.
2) Release Macabinet 2.
3) Release Formation 2.
All three of these apps have been “so close to finished it’s painful” for a little while now, and we just couldn’t bear to see them hidden away on our hard drives any longer. “So where’s the Macabinet and Formation updates?”, you may be asking. Well I’ll tell you.
Macabinet 2 -
Blah blah blah...it is awesome. It is distinctly Macabinet… yet so much more. Almost brings tears to my eyes. When will it ship? Well the plan was to ship last Friday. But, it probably won’t ship until around March 10th [2006]. The application itself is, essentially, done. But we have a little work on “Macabinet Theme Builder 2.0″ left to do.
Formation 2 -
Formation 2 is in the same release time-frame as Macabinet 2 [March 10, 2006 - bwahaha!]. And the application itself is, for all intensive [sic] purposes, complete. But there are two pieces holding up the release:
1) The help files and documentation are not yet complete, though they will be shortly.
2) The Formation 1.0 converter has one very naughty bug. You see, Formation 2 uses a very different file format than Formation 1.1 (which provides for some very cool new features)...
When will Formation 2 ship? Dear lord I hope it ships in the next few days [late February 2006]. The help files will be completed shortly (as in possibly tomorrow [Feb 24, 2006!] ). But the conversion bug… well… it’s a bug. I’d love to say it’ll be fixed in an hour… but I really don’t know as I am not sure at this point what is causing it. [alert admin]
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Friday, February 23 2007 @ 09:27 PM PST
Formation 1.1.4 (Mac OS X)
Formation 2.0 is total vaporware!
Check this out:
EVERETT, Washington (January 11th, 2006) -- Radical Breeze today announced Formation 2.0, the first major upgrade to their information organization application. New features include: advanced searching, multiple importing and exporting options (including XML and RSS), enhanced calendaring functionality and more. Version 2.0 will be a free upgrade for all Formation users, and is scheduled to be released in the first half of February for both MacOS X and Windows XP.
Full text here:
http://www.arcknowledge.com/gmane.comp.lang.realbasic.announce/2006-01/msg00008.html
So a year ago this new version was announced! The developer, Bryan Looney, has been quite invisible since he removed the Radical Breeze blog in late May, 2006, after caving under the weight of so many Formation 1.1 support complaints that went unanswered and untold "where the heck is it" queries about F2 fell on deaf ears.
So I think this Bryan character ought to have the good graces to shop around his collection of software, many titles of which have been promised upgrades during 2006, to another programmer who will do them justice. Radical Breeze has somehow turned in Radical Sleaze and the joke's on those of us who've been strung along for almost two years. [alert admin]
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Saturday, January 20 2007 @ 10:26 PM PST
LXVII 0.9.2b (Mac OS X)
looks good after ten minutes' play
I used the mouse for all my input because I have a "mini" keyboard hooked up to my laptop. I will try later with keyboard equivalents. I used a 67 for years in the 70s and gave it away to a college kid when I no longer needed it. Then a few years ago I bought one from eBay and it brought back all the good memories (no pun intended). I resold that and now I have this Mac version to try. No mag cards, though. There used to be a club of 67 users and someone figured out how to create "non-normalized numbers," which could only be saved on mag cards. The club had a lively trade in these cards. One of the cards would cause the words C0Co C01o scroll across the display (the "o" was squared off so it looked like a lower case "a" and the effect was "coca cola" on the display. One wish list hint: make the calculator look like a 67, complete with the place for the mag card. Then let users create a collection of virtual mag cards that could be "run through" and then slipped into the card window. Thanks! [alert admin]
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Monday, June 05 2006 @ 10:55 PM PDT
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David, since the MySpackle Nazis have harassed you into halting distribution of a couple of interesting programs, it's appropriate that your iTunes replacement goes for the, uh, kneejerk reaction with its name. Keep up the great work [alert admin]
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Wednesday, May 31 2006 @ 10:43 PM PDT
Formation 1.1.4 (Mac OS X)
User-hostile developer, don't gamble your money away here
The developer, Bryan Lund, recently removed his blog about RB products simply because his ego was too fragile to handle the myriad complaints from users that were posted on the blog as comments. The only comments he really responded to were some negative ones and it mostly to respond angrily to valid points that were brought up. He doesn't respond well to criticism. He promises the world WRT a new version yet the promises are unfulfilled. Several months ago he declared that Formation 2 was "for all intensive purposes" finished. All that was lacking was some documentation and a utility to convert F1 files. If it was so finished, why wasn't it released with the caveat that the docs weren't ready and the conversion utility still had some time to finish. I expect that this comment will be deleted after Bryan views it and complains to Version Tracker. He's so obsessive about things like that. If only all that energy were put into development rather than constantly trying to spin his unfulfilled promises. I would really like for Bryan to admit to the world that Formation 2 is nowhere near ready for GA or even limited public alpha testing. Admit it and be done with it. State that F2 *might* be ready by February 2007. There is something really adult and mature about a person who is able to admit to promising too much. It's really immature for someone to keep spinning new promises wihtou delivering. And by the way, F1 is not the way to go right now. It is very slow, is pretty combersome, lacks many features that competiting products have, and is way behind its time. F1 has been left in the dust by such apps as DevonThink. Please don't cry, Bryan, we don't hate you. We just dislike your cavalier attitude to the customers who've bought your products and your empty promises. You ought to join the Bush Brigade. [alert admin]
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Monday, May 29 2006 @ 06:42 PM PDT
Last 10 Comments by twicks [ Search for All ]
An IQ of 174 and you write like a 12-year-old. Something's not right here, pally.
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Monday, January 22 2007 @ 08:03 PM PST
Well, I'm not German but I lived and worked in Bonn and Berlin for a fair number of years. The examples are technically correct in German but not what I'd consider the best way to express the though. In my experience, the German speaker doesn't use the strict past tense ("Andrew schoss..." "Anna biss...") but rather the present perfect ("Andrew hat ... geschossen." "Anna hat...abgebissen.") Can you clarify the usage? …
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Friday, January 05 2007 @ 11:23 PM PST
The developer mentioned on his now-dufunct blog in March that Macabinet 2's release was right around the corner. So is there a MC 2 in the works or not? Frankly I think the developer is a few twigs shy of a tree and is probably off until Jan 10 celebrating whatever secular and religious holiday he can to avoid interfacing with customers.
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Monday, October 30 2006 @ 09:17 PM PST
Why don't you contact Luke jackson, the developer and let him know about your problems. He'll fix it for you. Then you can come back to Version Tracker and apologize for posting a bug report here before talking to the developer. I've used this for years and Luke has been nothing but helpful to me and others.
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Monday, October 02 2006 @ 10:18 PM PDT
I'm curious: where did you see Master Bryan's statement about moving away from the Mac? I'm also curious about what the hell happened to Formation 2, which was announced at MWSF in January, was pronounced ready to go except that the documentation wasn't finished and some details about a converter for F1 files, and that was way back in March. If it was so close to release then, why hasn't it been released five…
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Thursday, August 10 2006 @ 11:27 PM PDT
When I upgraded to 10.4.7 CTVD no longer worked. It would load at login but a few seconds later it quits. I notified Codetek a couple of times but in the three intervening weeks, I've heard nothing. Therefore I looked around in VT and discovered Virture. Having a 15" laptop means having the dire need for extra screen space, whether it's a bunch of discrete desktops (your 1st scenario) or a Unix/Linux-like screens…
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Thursday, July 20 2006 @ 09:07 PM PDT
Apolgies for the triple posting of the "what's new" comment
For some reason when i hit the "submit" button I got an error so i submitted again. I turned into three, which I did not intend. Sorry for the wasted bandwidth. VT won't let you edit or delete comments once submitted.
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Tuesday, July 04 2006 @ 01:05 AM PDT
List of "what's new" would be nice
Yes, I know I could go to the SP site and try to locate the KB article that describes what's new with this version, but that's pretty counterproductive. Just think about it: We note on VT that there's a new version. We also note that there's no "what's new" info. Hey, we're already at VT, why should we go click on the link to go to the developer's site (which takes…
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Tuesday, July 04 2006 @ 01:00 AM PDT
List of "what's new" would be nice
Yes, I know I could go to the SP site and try to locate the KB article that describes what's new with this version, but that's pretty counterproductive. Just think about it: We note on VT that there's a new version. We also note that there's no "what's new" info. Hey, we're already at VT, why should we go click on the link to go to the developer's site (which takes…
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Tuesday, July 04 2006 @ 12:59 AM PDT
List of "what's new" would be nice
Yes, I know I could go to the SP site and try to locate the KB article that describes what's new with this version, but that's pretty counterproductive. Just think about it: We note on VT that there's a new version. We also note that there's no "what's new" info. Hey, we're already at VT, why should we go click on the link to go to the developer's site (which takes…
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Tuesday, July 04 2006 @ 12:59 AM PDT
