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| Downloads:13,218 |
| Version Downloads:205 |
| Type:Utilities : Font Tools |
| License:Shareware |
| Date:09 Apr 2012 |
| Platform:PPC / Intel |
| Price: $20.00 |
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Their apps have been poorly written ripoffs since day one and DO NOT deserve your support.
Russian organized crime has nothing on these guys!
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TheBloke reviewed on 09 Apr 2012
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26cab40 reviewed on 08 Feb 2010
Charging this much for slapping a badly written front end on somebody else's work is a disgrace.
AlphaOmega software are a disgrace.
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And if I ever need to look up the ASCII code for a character that isn't immediately accessible with a key press, I'll stick with Mac OS X's built in Character Viewer (a.k.a. Character Palette in 10.5 and below). Since ASCII codes and Unicode codes are the same across the entire range of ASCII characters, I can already look up these codes with just the included system tools.
In short, DON'T PAY FOR THIS, people!
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Anonymous reviewed on 17 Sep 2005
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Anonymous reviewed on 17 Sep 2005
This little PHP script will do the same thing for free:
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Anonymous reviewed on 17 Sep 2005
The author has every right to ask for compensation for his or her time spent developing the program whether you think it's worth it or not.
Stop whining and posting comments that don't help the rest of us determine if the software does a good job at what it was built for.
On that note, the software does an okay job. It basically displays a short or extended character chart for a given font in list format. This can make it hard to find what you need at first, but it can get easier over time. The find feature works pretty good if you know the keyboard shortcut for what you're looking for. It's got a display bug where the values get "chopped" if the font size is too small.
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However the actions of this developer does not surprise me as they have had a long history of predatory conduct. I avoid them whenever possible due to their perceived business model - or to quote W.C. Fields: "Never give a sucker an even break."
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But common sense works bidirectionally:
- As a potential user, the common sense reads as "I don't want to pay, I don't use it"
- But, as a software developer, the common sense reads (should read) as "This feature comes from free with the OS, GUI access included, does it make really sense asking people for paying 20 bucks when they have it for free?", especially if the technical contents of this app is such that any computer programming scholar could write it in a couple of hours?
So, the same common sense should have suggested those people not to ask for money for that stuff.
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Anonymous reviewed on 25 Feb 2004