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User Name walfrieda
Member Since 2003-12-18
Total number of Feedback Posts: 26
Total number of comments: 6
Last 10 Feedback Posts by walfrieda [ Search for All ]
Adobe Flash Player 10.1.51.45 (Mac OS X)
Flash Player for Mac has been stinking for years. On the latest MacBook Pro running a HD video needs 150% CPU - this is just utterly unacceptable. Adobe just does not care - they are inapt, learning-impaired, unresponsive, and plain arrogant. Apple should buy this company and fire the responsible people, and teach the others how to write programs that work. I am so pissed off with them, and have been for years - definitely since they bought Freehand just to get rid of competition and let it die. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, November 17 2009 @ 09:37 AM PST
myTexts snow 1.2 (Mac OS X)
Now also useful for glossy displays 
This is a nice little app - well layed out and very functional. The only problem up to now was the dark backgrounds, which gave strong reflections on glossy displays, which were maybe more distracting than anything else. Now the developer has made a white background version - great! [alert admin]
Thursday, November 12 2009 @ 11:11 PM PST
DateLine 0.80 (Mac OS X)
Simple but great addition to my desktop - Apple should buy this and include it in iCal! [alert admin]
Saturday, October 31 2009 @ 02:04 PM PDT
VMware Fusion 3.0 (Mac OS X)
Registration and Updating process are a shame
I really like the product, just to say this first. But the company and its way of registering products and updating process are terrible. Not only does every small update require a registration at their site, but also they ask for detailed information that they really do not need to know. They should be happy to have customers buying their products, and appreciate them paying for updates, but instead they try everything to make you hate the company and the website. I have now filled in the forms on their update webpage hours ago - and did not even receive an email reply nor a download link for the product. Not to speak of the promo offer for version 2 only two weeks before version 3 came out as a to-pay-for update which makes me feel ripped off in the first place. Sorry guys, you make it easy to decide against your product, or for using it illegally. Because, you know, all your registration-stuff just pisses off the honest customer, but keeps NO-ONE from getting an illegal download. Don't ruin your own business if you want loyal customers. [alert admin]
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Wednesday, October 28 2009 @ 02:15 AM PDT
TimeMachineEditor 2.5 (Mac OS X)
I used to love this program because it did not install a background daemon to interfere with the system. There have always been other programs with daemons - something I never even looked at having the perfect solution with TimeMachineEditor. Now, for Snow Leopard, the developer changed over to the dark side. Maybe there is no other possibility - I don't care. I will not install a background daemon to take care of my backups. I'd rather live with hourly backups than using this version. That was it - good bye. [alert admin]
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Saturday, October 03 2009 @ 02:00 PM PDT
FunctionFlip 2.0.1 (Mac OS X)
kind of works - but not really 
On my MBP 13" (mid 2009) running snow leopard 10.6.1, this nice preference pane "kind of" works, but has a couple of problems. First, and most annoyingly, when I "flip" F8 to show spaces, it does show the spaces but at the same time plays the system alarm sound when invoked on any space other than space 1. Second, it spontaneously stops working after some use - suddenly, pressing F8 no longer shows the spaces but starts iTunes (something I really hate about these new "media keys"). I have not yet been able to find a particular "user action" that makes the program stop working. I have to stop it and start it again. I would love to love this program - it would definitely be in constant use on my computer, but with these two major glitches I simply can't. When the developer is into fixing this stuff anyway, he might consider a "shut this *censored* up" function to inactivate the F8 key so that it no longer starts playing a song on iTunes. Did I say I hate this??? All other keys are kind of fine, as they do not start programs. [alert admin]
Monday, September 28 2009 @ 05:44 AM PDT
Saft 12.0.0 Public Beta 2 (Mac OS X)
Once again charged for a simple update
I use Saft for quite some years now, and have always paid for an update whenever I updated the OS. Now, with 15$ upgrade fee (where the full OS upgrade cost me mere 20$) I am really upset with the developer. Not only does he never answer emails when you send suggestions for improvements or questions as to further development, he also tries to rip-off his loyal customers repeatedly. I am not willing to throw money at this guy every year or second year, basically for NO added features for ages - just to have the same feature running again on the new OS. Sorry guy, you are overdoing it. Give the SnowLeopard version out for free to loyal customers, or you'll lose them for good. [alert admin]
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Sunday, September 06 2009 @ 01:52 AM PDT
Pipette 1.0r1 (Mac OS X)
Maybe the author of this software should have a look into the Utilities folder of OsX. In there there is has a program "Digital ColorMeter" which does the same thing, but better. It comes preinstalled on every Mac for years now. [alert admin]
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Tuesday, February 06 2007 @ 02:47 PM PST
Saft 8.3.10 (Mac OS X)
Saft is a great add-on to Safari, but there are quite a number of small things that could be incorporated to improve it further. * add an option to block auto-starting music on websites * add an option to block animations by type (e.g. block flash but not embedded quicktime-movies) * block automatically opening pages in Safari (e.g. stop Quicktime movies from opening an ad website). * option to set exceptions to the popup- and adblocker (some sites require popups or I want to see ads on particular sites to support that site) As some improvements have been requested several times, it would be great to hear from the developer whether he plans to incorporate them, or why not if not. In also he does not answer emails regarding these points. [alert admin]
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Thursday, December 14 2006 @ 02:23 AM PST
Saft 8.3.9 (Mac OS X)
8.3.9 crashes Safari repeatedly
Since I have installed 8.3.9 Safari reproducibly crashes under different condition, e.g. when trying to post to forums. STAY AWAY from this release. 8.3.8 is fine. [alert admin]
Tuesday, December 12 2006 @ 01:44 PM PST
Last 10 Comments by walfrieda [ Search for All ]
Registration and Updating process are a shame
So, guys from VMware, if you happen to read this: After DAYS of trying to buy the update through your site, and all I ever got was error messages that you did not like my data (whatever, name or credit card information or something else), I have now decided to use the program with a serial found on the web. To you this may sound "illegal", but I have wasted time worth much more than…
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Wednesday, November 04 2009 @ 01:56 AM PST
Actually I would not mind so much these "additional" backups that Time Machine does - as long as it does not backup every hour during normal work. It is there where it is most disturbing, at least for me. Thus, changing the plist might just be sufficient for many people like me...
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Monday, October 05 2009 @ 06:43 AM PDT
Guy, don't complain about software if you, YOU, are to stupid to use it. GlimmerBlocker does what it says, and does it well. If you rely on a warning message telling you that you downloaded a program from the internet a few seconds after you did it - what does it tell about you? If you don't understand what a proxy is, why do you complain that if you install a new proxy program it…
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Sunday, September 13 2009 @ 10:13 PM PDT
I have to add that Kubuntu is darn slow under VPC. I'm running it on my 2.1GHz iMac with 1.5GB of RAM - it is much much slower than Debian runnning on my nine year old G3 Powermac (actually the G3 card in there is newer) with only 196MB of RAM. There, KDE and everything runs snappy (even though not really comparable with a new machine). So, I won't use Kubuntu on VPC, sorry.
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Tuesday, February 14 2006 @ 03:19 PM PST
no problem with the time it took to download - that's how the torrents always are when there is only one seeder to begin with. I was really upset when it didn't work, as I assumed it can start/install from DVD. Ok, now that I know better I got it to run in a minute (no sound and networking yet, but otherwise fine). When I get everything working I'll start seeding your disk image, too. So,…
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Tuesday, February 14 2006 @ 06:52 AM PST
How did you get it to work? And what's your hardware?
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Tuesday, February 14 2006 @ 05:58 AM PST
