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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
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]
Sunday, April 20 2008 @ 06:07 AM PDT
Interarchy 9.0 (Mac OS X)
Brilliant upgrade - and no problems here 
Having used Interarchy 9.0 pretty extensively for the last 24 hours I can report that it's reliable on my G5 PPC. So what do I want from an upgrade to interarchy? More speed? Better Security? Streamlined UI? I was amazed as it has all of those. I can count the number of times I've been as pleased by an upgrade as much as this on the fingers of one hand (the recent version of Logic accounts for three of those fingers, it was so good). SSH works brilliantly, unbelievably fast listings even with a couple of hundred items in a folder. The draggable and organisable tabs, along with the sidebar, make perfect sense, it's just like using the finder. Another handy new feature is the directory/path info which is like a breadcrumb trail at the bottom of the window. I'm a great fan of PathFinder, and I think the Nolobe crew must be too, because it's starting to feel like a streamlined version of that, with all of it's advantages but without the complexity. My congratulations to the team on a solid update. I would have liked a bit more of a discount as a current user, but then I do use Interarchy all the damn time so I'll live with it seeing as they've delivered what feels like a proper major update (for an FTP app that is – don't expect it to control itunes or anything funky). One thing I'd like to see, which should be easy since we can now connect with SSH, is a drop down terminal draw at the bottom which can resize nicely like the one in PathFinder. I would then be able to do fast tar, gzip and recursive permissions or deletes – and yes I know there's an open in terminal command but I want it built in dammit :) Anyway, a great update, seems like the problems reported may depend on whether that stuff is important to you, doesn't affect me at all, and I'm sure they'll be fixed soon enough – since Nolobe took over (a developer take over if I remember??) things have been improving dramatically. [alert admin]
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Saturday, January 12 2008 @ 10:10 AM PST
Hourly 1.0.1b2 (Mac OS X)
I must have downloaded every time tracker on VersionTracker. There's a real mixed bag, some terrible, out of date applications that should probably be removed. After what seemed like a whole day of testing, I whittled my choices down to just two, Hourly and On The Job. Hourly looks the most complete, while On The Job is more mature but has less features (you could call it more streamlined I guess, it's down to what you need more than anything else!).
To give you an idea of what Hourly is like, it's probably similar to what Omni would make if they started a similar project. After a couple of weeks of testing, my feeling is that Hourly is pretty reliable and will likely grow into the most complete, slick and polished timetracker for Mac. I'll likely register when my trial ends. I recommend everyone add it to their shortlist.
I've had recourse to question the developer with a Leopard related issue, he answered within 24 hours with a beta build that solved my issue.
To be honest I'm amazed no-one has left any feedback already (!) as this thing is pretty amazing. I thought the price was high, but having looked at almost every other similar application, I reckon the price is justified - don't count it out until you've had a good look through it. Hourly is powerful but easy to use, and produces great looking documents. I'm going to give Hourly five stars because it's 98% of the way there for me. I have a couple of things I've asked the developer to look at, but they're not show stoppers, just very minor procedural issues. On the whole I give the dev a damn good pat on the back for a great (proper) mac app.
[alert admin]Wednesday, December 12 2007 @ 08:54 AM PST
Acquisition 2.0v206 (Mac OS X)
Having paid for v1 and upgraded to 2 thinking it would be at most a small upgrade fee, I see I am expected to pay full price, I looked for the last release of version 1 and it doesn't seem to be available. [alert admin]
Tuesday, December 11 2007 @ 03:00 AM PST
Data Rescue II 1.2 (Mac OS X)
Caught without a backup, this worked really, really well. Very pleased. Well worth the price (compared to the idea of facing the total loss of the files!). Hopefully you won't ever need it, but if you do, this is the one I found worked best for me. [alert admin]
Thursday, November 29 2007 @ 10:51 AM PST
NetShade 3.1 (Mac OS X)
Many servers, such as my own, do not allow traffix that comes from proxy servers, because that's where most of the spam and other evil comes from. Using this is like putting on a pair of dark glasses and using a forged ID - don't be suprised if many legitimate companies don't want to give you access. [alert admin]
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Sunday, January 07 2007 @ 06:21 AM PST
Amazing Slow Downer 3.0.4 (Mac OS X)
I skipped a few downloads as AmazingX was working perfectly well, thought I'd upgrade today and see what was new – some really nice improvements such as the ability to have the interface a lot larger, set your own key bindings, metal appearance, preferences sorted into tabs - and lots of small but significant options available in prefs. RoniMusic are keeping this thing on track, it gets better without losing it's central goal. Utterly invaluable for transcribers, I love it, thanks! [alert admin]
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Wednesday, October 18 2006 @ 06:41 AM PDT
Last 10 Comments by zimbop [ Search for All ]
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
All the people that complain about LilyPond ...
"All the people that complain about LilyPond probably never had to engrave complex music in a professional way."
Congratulations, that was both incorrect and patronising.
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Friday, May 19 2006 @ 06:28 PM PDT
A big leap in the wrong direction – and an alternative GUI suggestion.
I'm suggesting for people who want a free music engraving application to try Finale Notepad and see if it meets their needs, not everyone needs to produce an orchestral score.
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Friday, May 12 2006 @ 02:10 PM PDT
Try Finale Notepad (also totally free) instead.
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Wednesday, May 10 2006 @ 08:22 AM PDT
