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Adrien Youell

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Posts: 30

Smile Score: +2

About Me

I am a MacUpdate Desktop user
Gender: Male
MD Histopathologist, retired. Apple Mac apostle since Mac's outstanding launch in January 1984 by Steve Jobs.
I was elected vice president [programs] Washington Apple Pi club in Bethesda, Maryland, 1985 and 86 as a Brit seconded to Institute of Pathology for 4 years.

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Magican 1.0.0
(Free)

Jaksta 1.2.5
(Shareware)

Skype 5.7.0.1130
(Free)

VueScan 9.0.95
(Demo)

Nikon View NX 2.3.2
(Updater)

Tinderbox 5.11.0
(Demo)

Thunderbird 12.0.1
(Free)

SizzlingKeys 5.0.3
(Demo)

Sandvox 2.5.6
(Demo)

Opera 11.64
(Free)

OnyX 2.4.6b3
(Free)

OmniGraphSketcher 1.2.2
(Shareware)

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Bean

Dradrienyouell reviewed on 16 Feb 2012

BEAN came upon us from nowhere (Erewhon, a novel in reverse name) and proves to be the MAC OSX wp and text editor of choice.
I congratulate the developer for persistence in rewriting from scratch in UNIX.
I bought a Lifetime membership for the latest updates. Ahem, I hope you stay in business? [USD $30 life-time sub.] I have that trust in the Bean folks. First-off WP, why Bean?
AY (UK)

[Version 3.0.7]

Xupport

Dradrienyouell commented on 16 Dec 2011

Laurent Müller seems to have gone out of business, no Xupport upgrade for Lion and his web pages are empty.
Pity, as others have said, Xupport was the best Maintenance utility. He was slow in getting out the Snow Leopard upgrade. Fare thee well if you are ill Laurent. Adrien x

[Version 3.6.0]

LaunchMagic

Dradrienyouell reviewed on 01 Sep 2011

This at F10 Launch 3.0.6 is a lot more recent than comments below. F10 launched from System Preferences as a PrefPane alright but showed over 700 items in its count... 'impossible I thought'. I then set about expunging "No Entry" sign apps. It wanted my OK to delete. No OK action. Then that was that, frozen screen. Not even Force Quit registered the app. The other F10 controls 'honked'.
I could not even launch Activity Monitor to stop any app.
It required a hard shutdown to get my Mac back.
I checked Sys Prefs for F10, disabled it and quit Sys Prefs I then dragged Applications folder F10.app onto App Delete and went ahead and deleted.
In unhidden ~/Library I checked the F10 PrefPane was gone and the .plist and AppSupport/Chronos etc... Yes, AppDelete did a complete expunging of all F10 elements.

These days with funky Trampoline and Lion's Find apps I have no need of F10. "It has bitten the dust for ever from my Mac Pro 10.7".

[Version 3.0.6]

-2

Google Chrome

Dradrienyouell commented on 19 Sep 2010

Why is MacUpdate repeatedly sending me email notifications of the same Chrome version every few days? I have learned the 'trick' now to check my installed Chrome version and regularly delete the MU notification of a non-update.
Adrien UK.

[Version 6.0.472.62]

Zooom2

Dradrienyouell reviewed on 06 Oct 2009

Thank God for John Clayton (dev) for 2.2.8 update to Snow Leopard. I was bereft, frustrated, lost my soul ... by missing Zoom2's window moving ability in 10.6.
In Snow Leopard I had to go back to hitting the hatched bottom right corner precisely on target to move the window size and equally hunting for the top bar to move the window.
I have been spoiled by earlier Zoom2 which made window moves so easily by Shift-Option and Shift-Command; when moving windows in background without them coming to front.

Thank you (in as many languages as I cannot speak;-) for restoring the ease of Zoom2's simplicity and efficiency in Snow Leopard. No other app is so intuitive (with a quick installation tutorial).
Adrien UK

[Version 2.2.8]

-3

iRecordMusic

DrAdrienYouell commented on 15 Aug 2008

I have not yet used iRecordMusic, I must have bought it in a MU Promo. AmbrioiaSW's WireTap Studio is the soul of simplicity for sounds I want to record; not concerned about channels, waveforms etc...

I am mentioning an alternative, that's all. Adrien.

[Version 1.6 build 464]

TapDex

DrAdrienYouell commented on 06 May 2008

TapDex is pure magic. It is my most useful utility to find urls, emails, names, email addresses, phone numbers...

Hit F1 and a floating interface appears, type some characters of your contact, hit go. Return/Enter and a number of similar names appears. You scroll down arrow to see the Contact you want. It shows TEL numbers and some truncated information.

Dismiss by returning to your 'document'. If required you than launch Address Book.

BUT you dont have to load Address Book for a simple query. I use TapDex daily, it is one of my most useful, nay essential 'add-ons'
3-cheers to Yellow Mug, thanks guys. A winner and it's FREE - press F1 and save yourself a lot of time.

Adrien X, UK

[Version 3.3.2]

Trampoline

DrAdrienYouell reviewed on 19 Feb 2008

I love Trampoline, it's not just another launcher, it has a wonderful user interface. Just as the developer says, you get used to where your applications are, left, right, top, wherever in the circle. [I should be talking of compass points ;-)

Initially you can load Trampoline from your Dock apps. Thereafter I pulled off Dock items I rarely used and ADDed them to Trampoline. I also pulled from Dock apps I rarely open first such as TextEdit, I will be double clicking on a txt document.

Trampoline is the BEST launcher with a fascinating opening using Option-Space. My `dock has shrunk leaving only most used apps for opening of for dragging files onto Dock icon.

Though valid 'Jefflass' misses the point about limitations to Apple's Dock... [and I dislike multiple Dock apps]. I have up to 64 icons in Trampoline's circle, some are apps to test or learn. That's a Dock of 64 items, so far only apps, not documents, including a slimmed down Dock.

'Easer' makes a great point of using Mouse centre button to launch Trampoline.

In my assessment I give high marks also for innovation and usefulness.
Yours
Adrien UK

[Version 2.3.3]

1Password

DrAdrienYouell reviewed on 30 Oct 2007

I have Uninstalled 1Password.

It got in the way of Safari Keychain with continuous requests for passwords, thankfully which I keep in a Pages file; I can revert to WP passwords.

i don't understand 1Password not providing what it advertises. NB I am a single user in a secure office.

1Password does not make password life simpler.
Adrien

[Version 2.5.3]

Rili

DrAdrienYouell reviewed on 15 Sep 2007

Nifty little date utility and in current version 201 works on Intel Mac Pro in OSX 10.4.10

My head is a sieve for numbers but I need dates. The date 15 is shown in Dock. The floating month is not distracting and is easily customisable whether floating or not and full range of transparency. The month shows up when the mouse is nearby; I put in a part of the 23" screen I rarely visit for other reasons

I think this is 5/5 for a free and lovely spice in my day.
Adrien

[Version 2.0.1]

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