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Audion X 3.0.2 (Mac OS X)
Greatest mp3 player ever; BRING IT BACK! 
Let me tell you how great this piece of software was/is... Notice how some people have testified here that it's a "light" mp3 player for every-day use? And one person said "iTunes is overkill for me"? That's how deceptively good Audion was/is. It would do a lot MORE than iTunes. iTunes, like much Apple software, removes features and/or (especially) user control, in order to "dumb it down" in homage to simplicity. Best example, perhaps, is that you have no option to play something with iTunes without it opening your entire library of umpteen thousand songs. With Audion, you don't have to open your library unless you want to. Thus you can easily use it to play just one song, or many. There are many more examples of why people love it. All my mp3 files bear the Audion icon (the default for playing all my music). I use iTunes for certain things, but I use it secondary to Audion. In my favorite example, Audion has a better way to assign file names to new conversions. Very customizable, which is exactly what Apple is getting away from: user control. I use OS 10.5.4, and Audion still works fine (relative to Tiger), except for one thing that I need to test further to confirm. I now cannot get the "Batch CD conversion" feature in Tools to work. That was handy. But I can still choose "Convert all playlist items" to accomplish the same thing... it's just one small extra step. (I highly suspect this is a quirkiness occurring with Leopard, and maybe any system still running Tiger would not lose this batch processing feature; but I'd need to test more to confirm; and I'd keep Tiger on one computer just for this reason, if that's the case!) Over time, since Audion is no longer supported (it's FREE now), we'll probably find more features that don't work as we'd like. But I'm not daunted by any bugginess yet. Someone asked "Where are the 1000" radio stations? That's another thing that went (not sure exactly why). That feature FAR exceeded iTunes!!!! It was great to listen to radio from all around the world... no ads, no limitations, no goofy proprietary introductions playing before you got to the broadcast. But now that's essentially gone. As for people wanting a simple, everyday mp3 player, I used to use one that was very simple and kinda cool, but can't remember what it was. Surely there are things out there still that could be found with a little digging. Might try using a widget or some other simple program that works in connection with iTunes (if you must go that route) but with iTunes itself staying in the back room with the door shut. Don't know. But snooping around might pay off. [alert admin]
Thursday, July 24 2008 @ 06:50 AM PDT
Quicksilver 1.0b54 (Mac OS X)
We are served with lots of hype and glowing reviews, but the installation file cannot be opened with the latest OS. Can't write the developer. It is a huge waste of time trying to get to the bottom of this. I give up. It doesn't work, cannot be installed. [alert admin]
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Friday, July 18 2008 @ 05:41 AM PDT
PandoCalendar 7.0.6 (Mac OS X)
I see the warning "small Christian calendar" here on the VersionTracker site; but you won't find any such warning on the developer's site. I'm writing this as a review, not a rant or comment, because I'm talking about a function of the application itself, namely the annoyance of a pop-up which occurs at midnight when I'm on the computer. There's a preference for turning off "Use Faith's Checkbook," but none for turning off this annoying Bible-text pop-up. I wouldn't have wasted my time checking out this application and figuring out how to use it, had I known this would happen. Had there been "full disclosure" up front, I would feel no need to register this unforeseen annoyance here. To those who will no doubt attach comments criticizing my criticism, well, just remember, not all of us are Christian. Some of us were and now aren't, some of us never have been. Many of us don't want to be, and ALL of us already know what it's all about. So naturally many of us consider this to be a sneaky, subtle form of proselytizing. The developer should advise people up front about it. And by the way, I wouldn't want pop-ups advocating for refreshing mountain spring water, either, so it's not JUST about religion. Being a religious pop-up only makes it even more annoying. [alert admin]
Tuesday, July 08 2008 @ 08:51 PM PDT
SetAlphaValue 2.2.2 (Mac OS X)
Most annoying little app I ever installed 
I use the latest Mac hardware and software, and used the current version of this product, which says it works with what I have... Two things: 1. This app is extremely annoying, as it makes certain documents in the background largely transparent, and if you have more than one document in the background (the usual situation), they bleed through, making everything visually garbled. There are many times you want to glance over at a different document or window you have open, in order to work in the one you're in. For example, you're on a web page in Safari and you want to glance at another page you left open, with info on it, or maybe glance over at a mail document you're referencing. Or a Text Edit document. If there is anything behind it--even a desktop picture that isn't a plain solid light color--you'll be unable to read it. Everything bleeds together into a mishmash of translucency. You can't even easily and quickly click on the other window, since you have no way of knowing, visually, which window or document is on top (of the pile below the window you're in). It will look like you're clicking on the window you want, but no, you're clicking on one layered above or below it, which then pops up opaque and you still don't have the window you're trying to read. 2. But it's worse than just annoying. Sometimes this app makes it's impossible to read something, no matter what you do. You know those little little "pop-out" windows that cleverly pop out of certain windows in OS X? An example is when you are selecting a screen saver and there's an Options button. Click it and the little pop-out window slides out and down in front of the window you're in. It has the preferences for that screensaver on it. Tweak how you want that screensaver to behave and then click Okay. The window disappears back into a slot in the main window and you're set to go. Problem is, with this app installed, the pop-out window and it's main window become translucent, blending the text and graphics together, such that you can not read the words and checkboxes. It's all run together. If you're lucky, you'll be able vaguely to see the Okay box for the options and click on it, to get the little popout to go back. You've been unable to set your options but you can at least sigh that you got your computer back from the Twilight Zone. That style of pop-out most often appears in Mail, when downloading an attached file. I didn't test to see if that works the same as described above. I have to believe the others reviewing this app just didn't see what I'm seeing, because this is a matter of functionality, not taste. The developer's download window contains a hugely prominent disclaimer in red letters. That should be a clue. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, June 19 2007 @ 07:08 AM PDT
Pester 1.0 (Mac OS X)
I twice tried to mount the downloaded disk image, and both times got a system warning that the disk image could be damaged and therefore could damage my system. The prefered response button was "Don't Open." Maybe all would have been fine, but it's not like there aren't dozens of alarm clocks out there, so I didn't take the chance. ...For what it's worth. [alert admin]
Sunday, June 17 2007 @ 07:46 PM PDT
TimeCard 1.0pb4 (Mac OS X)
I downloaded the disk image, but when I click to mount it, I get a warning that the disk image appears to be damaged and might harm my system. So I clicked not to try opening it, after which I got a message that it failed to mount. Tried twice. [alert admin]
Tuesday, June 12 2007 @ 10:55 AM PDT
Last 10 Comments by visitor1 [ Search for All ]
Sometimes useful, always irritating.
That's not the point. Obviously closing a pop-up window is not a terribly difficult thing to do, as you very well know. The point is that it's an irritation. I agree with this person's review. We aren't warned in advance that we'll be dealing with religious pop-ups (whether once a day or once a decade), and that kind of proselyting is precisely what irritates the rest of us about fundamentalists who just can't seem to…
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Monday, July 28 2008 @ 08:19 PM PDT
