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User Name zimbop
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Total number of Feedback Posts: 81
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Eve Online 6.10.88517 (Mac OS X)
This game is very much like a 3d MMORG Escape Velocity. Missions, trading, races, a vast universe, ships and upgrades - basically it's iEV, or is it eEV, EVe - whatever it is it's a lot like EV. [alert admin]
Saturday, May 16 2009 @ 06:33 PM PDT
PTGui 8.1.4 (Mac OS X)
Hugin? But here's a thought... 
Let me just point out something that for me is the total clincher in PTGUI's defense for the shareware fee. Automatic control point generation, and I'll say this, it's awesome. Since switching to PTGUI I don't generate them by hand at all. Using other software it was THE most boring thing to do. PTGUI can accurately generate hundreds for each pair of photos in a few seconds.
Now, Hugin, thought I'd just have a look as someone mentioned it and I see this in the manual... "For the first control point you will then need to go to the other image and click the corresponding location". Erm, okay, that would be a little like taking my computer away and giving me back a typewriter. I'm not knocking Hugin, but to call it a perfect freeware alternative is only fair if you ignore a feature in PTGUI of such MAMMOTH time saving proportions as AUTO CONTROL POINTS. Sorry, I know it's not an in-depth review, but hopefully that will give some people something significant to test between the two :)
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Wednesday, April 01 2009 @ 05:46 PM PDT
Jaikoz Audio Tagger 2.8.4 (Mac OS X)
I found this to be a most remarkable time saving application. Five minutes after install I knew it was what I needed to tidy my library so I registered it, and 30 minutes after that I had identified every "unknown" or "unidentified" song. Over the past few days I've been able to refine many things such as album dates and missing artwork. I've been keeping a close eye on it (I don't trust _any_ software for months!) and so far it totally shines in terms of accuracy and reliability. For me, it's either automation or chaos, no way have I got time to ID everything, or fill in the kind of info that this app manages in a few seconds. People have mentioned the slight java-clunkiness of it. It is noticeable but most importantly that does not affect the apps ability to get the job done, which is more important to me than any plastic devotion to the purity of cocoa. If some cocoalicious thing comes out that can match this, that'd be great, but I haven't seen one that can match it. Last point - this application, along with SuperSync, have enabled me to achieve what I thought would be impossible, in restoring, sorting, de-duping and syncing my audio archive. What I really want next is to be able to do the same to my damn photo archive! [alert admin]
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Tuesday, February 17 2009 @ 01:55 AM PST
Joomla 1.5.9 (Mac OS X)
I know what this is and I've even used installed it and used it on a number of occasions, but since when did PHP projects become MacOSX software? I know, PHP is installed on OSX, but then so is Ruby, Perl, Bash, Python etc. Rather than an OSX software site (and I'm thinking Cocoa here) this place will end up looking like Hotscripts.Com if we flood the place with such obviously wrongly categorised software projects. [alert admin]
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Saturday, January 10 2009 @ 01:30 AM PST
All2MP3 1.04 (Mac OS X)
Works very well. No funky features, just drag, drop select bitrate and go! It's free, it works, many thanks to the Dev. [alert admin]
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Saturday, November 29 2008 @ 05:54 PM PST
SmartCVS Professional 7.0.3 (Mac OS X)
CVS = Concurrent Versions System
For all those confused into thinking that this software has anything to do with online prescription orders, it does not. CVS is (and has been for many, many years) the Concurrent Versions System, a way to keep track of changes in files during software development. [alert admin]
Friday, November 28 2008 @ 12:57 AM PST
TubeSock 2.0.3 (Mac OS X)
Rather disappointed that after owning this app for a while it no longer works with my iPhone. Movies it rips from YouTube are not readable by the iphone. [alert admin]
Tuesday, August 26 2008 @ 04:54 AM PDT
Sibelius 5.2 (Mac OS X)
I upgraded from Sibelius 4 to 5 for a project the was postponed. It was resurrected after a few of months and I had cause to ask some tech questions relating to MIDI setup. They flat refused to speak to me because I had bought Sibelius upgrade some 115 days ago, even though this was the first time I'd booted it after installing it. Seems there's a 90 day cutoff on telephone support, never mind it was the first few hours of me actually using the software, In contrast, I needed to talk to MakeMusic about an EPS issue between a previous version of Finale (2007) and Adobe Illustrator CS3. They happily spent 10 or 15 minutes troubleshooting with me and flagged up the issue which I found could be worked around easily, and was fixed by an update. I guess this isn't a "negative" for Sibelius (I don't fancy my chances getting live Tech Support from Apple for Logic) as much as it is a plus for Finale. Either way the issue took a few more days to solve with Sibelius than I think it probably should have. My overall impression is that the famous "ease of use" is only sustained for as long as you want to do things "the way sibelius wants to do them", and as soon as you try to use conventions outside of Sibelius sphere of comfort, it's poor and hacky. It seems to me that Sibelius is akin to "Pages" and Finale is more like "InDesign". You'll be up and running quickly in Sibelius, and if you don't want to make anything too challenging you'll probably be OK. [alert admin]
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Saturday, May 24 2008 @ 06:49 PM PDT
Interarchy 9.0.1 (Mac OS X)
Interarchy is fast and reliable. I have to use FTP everyday, uploading, downloading, syncing - I've never had a problem. Try a simple A - B comparison for speed against other FTP apps and you'll see it's lean and fast, one sign of good, unbloated programming. Not sure what Graphex problem is, click on his name and check his previous posts, he's just a spammer - probably was him spamming posts over and over on the forum like he's done here on VersionTracker - don't have to scratch much below the surface to see where he's coming from. [alert admin]
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Friday, April 25 2008 @ 07:08 PM PDT
LicenseKeeper 1.3.4 (Mac OS X)
There are a million ways to track your licenses, but I really like having a single app that keeps it all in one place, dedicated to only that. A useful feature for me is that you can store other docs along with the license. These could be PDF files sent with your license (startly software sent their license out like this to me) or emails. This way I get to keep a copy of the original email or other docs which often has useful info. I know I can do that in other ways, but by using LicenseKeeper it encourages you to actually do it because it's all built in. One great feature is that it attempts to parse email for the serial number, developer info and developers website. The cast majority of times it has pulled all that info correctly. I don't know if I'll need all that, but seeing as it's so simple it's nice to know it's all archived. Now if I buy a software (meh, I buy a lot!) I just run it thorough here, takes 15 seconds. [alert admin]
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Sunday, April 20 2008 @ 06:07 AM PDT
Last 10 Comments by zimbop [ Search for All ]
OK everyone, time to bail out, VT is becoming a script repository. You won't be able to find pure cocoa Mac apps for little PHP script projects that post the time to your webpage, or create a simple version of ebay on your intranet. If you rally want that, split it off into a separate section "SCRIPTS"
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Sunday, January 11 2009 @ 05:44 AM PST
Coda is a web development app that combines a text editor (based on subetha edit), a CSS tool (not unlike CSSEdit), FTP, integrated support for subversion, and a terminal. An attempt at an all encompassing single stop shop for the WebDev, rather than constantly switching between different apps. The text editing facilities are somewhat basic compared to BBEdit but it's still very useable.
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Tuesday, December 16 2008 @ 02:42 AM PST
The ability to hide the quick add section is now in the app. If you click the "More" button in the filter bar you can see there are several really handy shortcuts for several other similar thing, such as collapsing the groups.
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Thursday, December 11 2008 @ 06:51 PM PST
I'm getting 72kB/s here, within 24hrs of your post. Sounds reasonable to me.
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Saturday, December 16 2006 @ 04:00 AM PST
Great product, really bad support...
I just thought I should add that having bought nearly all Kekus software now (PTMac, PT Batch, Lensfix etc) it's simply not true to say they have bad support, - I've received first rate support whenever I've needed it.
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Monday, November 27 2006 @ 07:37 PM PST
not clear why you would use this ...
I think this complaint should be disregarded, the guy obviously doesn't have a need for the niche that ASD caters for - that much is obvious from his ignorance of its use.
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Monday, October 09 2006 @ 04:21 PM PDT
Someone was listening, check out 8.5!
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Thursday, September 07 2006 @ 08:31 AM PDT
Shows as £ 16.32 GBP here. I think you went into the shopping cart on two occasions, and so it had you down for two licenses. You really ought to check your facts a bit more closely.
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Tuesday, August 01 2006 @ 10:36 AM PDT
Misleading tagline, nothing OSX can't already do
Maybe you should read the link on their home page titled very clearly "Tell me why I should buy SoftRAID when Apples RAID is free?", and then you can see if the extra functionality is something worth paying for for your particular situation. Link included below for your convenience: http://www.softraid.com/vsapple.html
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Tuesday, August 01 2006 @ 09:01 AM PDT
Meh - no sense of humour ...
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Wednesday, July 19 2006 @ 08:07 AM PDT
