Unusable, I'm very sorry.
It hurts me more than you to have to say it, even because I see your good will by making it free but…
Perhaps it's better you look around a bit, for example at Transmit and I'm confident you will easy learn how to allow also we poor user (and not only you developer) to use it and understand how to.
I wish you the best luck and to trust yourself, very happy to can give you 5 stars as soon as possible!
For now I will help you by LYING trusting till to 5 stars the stability, Ok?
…errrrrrrrr… a 'little problem' in making a proper user interface?
Why is the very normal one of FTP so familiar and this… probably copied by an Ancient Egypt pyramid internal wall.
Funny, absolutely agree, transgressive, ironic (in fact VERY ironic!) but I'm an old fashioned man and prefer to stay on my familiar, used, beloved, trusted aqua interface…
There is nothing to compare with!
Ages ago I wished to have this kind of tool to can write an essay correctly interconnected, being the concepts themselves so tightly close together, depending by each other, not only to external concepts and therefore links.
Whatever you want explain, can be a theorem, a theory, a manual, a philosophical vision, needs to be explained nowadays NOT trough a common book but trough a Wiki html document, and, as far as i know, ONLY VoodooPad can do it easily like writing a book with chapters, definitions, notes, bibliography, quotes, each one referring to other ones!
If only anyone (having something to say!) woud know this 'TOOL", his chances to can persuade, explain, be easily understood, quickly and happily, would be by far bigger!!
There are only two problems that I would see solved in a next release:
- after installing, as you can read in the troubleshootings, you can't see the preference pane. (don't fall in panic, simply restart system preferences).
- if your Mac has only one fan, it can't recognise it and SCARES YOU by telling that the second fan is down, so… why not doing something to eliminate this anxiogenic false information?
It's necessary to lead the user to take good decisions or suggest some preset and clean up some not working commands.
I could make examples of confusing statement about what is suspended in a window and not in another one, what should work but is not.
But then... a good guide for the most popular and CPU sucking apps should be there (Chrome helpers, renders and other long lists of mysterious processes, most of them for sure 'suspendable' but not without risks of bad behaviours like toggling between applications
Let's be helpful and underline the weeak points.
I tried this on the very little library on my MBAir, results:
-6 duplicates, in detail:
-the first 3 were two different versions 29 seconds different (same title and author) and, even worst, one was a VIDEO!, so they're not a real duplicate.
- the last 3 were the video and the pure audio version, same time, this time, nevertheless not reason enough to consider them 'duplicates'.
I already used other duplicate finder apps and I deleted unfortunately some duplicate, yes, but of a corrupted file (the ones who can't be played till the end and let iTunes jump to the next one, another very annoying still not solved problem of iTunes!).
Before to consider 'duplicate' a file, it should be deeply analyzed, if not, it should be named 'similar' and, possibly, listed IN WHAT they differs and in what they're IDENTICAL.
Tags and slightly different names or infos could result in a slightly different size of the whole file while the content is identical, in this case list as identical file with different attachments.
Shortly, this program still needs a heap of work to match the real needs of the rest of us, even more if we have to work on a real LIBRARY of tenth of thousands of files or more!
Even the good freeware alternatives are working even outside the country of the developer, THIS NOT! Sorry to be so frank, but it's A SHAME!
Hard to give 'a rating' of 'features, stability and ease of use' a product that I can't evaluate (this is why I miss so much Version Tracker!) and sorry to have been forced by this site to do it.
BUT… let YOU ME finally try it (means make it WORK, damn!) and I promise indulgence!
Already the fact that Skype's new version pop up alert has a button pretending to send you to a 'what's new' page which NOT EXIST is a sign of a deep cheater's attitude!
Beside the kid's interface, I never understood why they deleted the history feature and will not consider the 5 version as professional as the 2.8 till they can reintroduce it also in this absolutely not needed 'upgrade to 5'.
I suggest Skype to keep evolving the 2.8 for serious uses (call it Skype Pro 2.9) and Ok, insist to give this funny toy to the beginner customers, the ones who also likes msn!!!!!
Is't there the risk to stop applications which are supposed to be active even in background instead to 'calm them down'?
Say Mail, Skype, but many other background applications, should be never totally stopped in background.
Probably two enhancements would be useful: a % ony reduction of the activity, an upper limit of it (means: stay active in background but not more than… say 1% of the CPU) with a kind of 'stop and go', without that the activity of Appriority becomes itself too high.
Even a good help about which apps should not be stopped to not regret to have done it.
I have a little question (by time!):
"Can I be sure that the resulting file is the smallest 'lossless' that I can have starting by the .flv file?"
Get Tube downloads whatever at 192 kB/", a bit optimistic, perhaps, other at 64 the same file…
This of the 'minimum LOSSLESS conversion is an unanswered issue also for .jpg and .mp4 files by YEARS!
Nothing to do, it can't start, freezing with the message that the demo allows to use it 15, 14, 13… times, freezing after freezing till the end.
Rating the product without even only having seen it open would be unfair but… come yourself to the (tragic) conclusions…)
Even the good freeware alternatives are working even outside the country of the developer, THIS NOT! Sorry to be so frank, but it's A SHAME!
Hard to give 'a rating' of 'features, stability and ease of use' a product that I can't evaluate (this is why I miss so much Version Tracker!) and sorry to have been forced by this site to do it.
BUT… let YOU ME finally try it (means make it WORK, damn!) and I promise indulgence!
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AnyClient
GianMarco-Tavazzani reviewed on 16 May 2012
It hurts me more than you to have to say it, even because I see your good will by making it free but…
Perhaps it's better you look around a bit, for example at Transmit and I'm confident you will easy learn how to allow also we poor user (and not only you developer) to use it and understand how to.
I wish you the best luck and to trust yourself, very happy to can give you 5 stars as soon as possible!
For now I will help you by LYING trusting till to 5 stars the stability, Ok?
AnyClient
Why is the very normal one of FTP so familiar and this… probably copied by an Ancient Egypt pyramid internal wall.
Funny, absolutely agree, transgressive, ironic (in fact VERY ironic!) but I'm an old fashioned man and prefer to stay on my familiar, used, beloved, trusted aqua interface…
+1
VoodooPad
GianMarco-Tavazzani reviewed on 06 May 2012
Ages ago I wished to have this kind of tool to can write an essay correctly interconnected, being the concepts themselves so tightly close together, depending by each other, not only to external concepts and therefore links.
Whatever you want explain, can be a theorem, a theory, a manual, a philosophical vision, needs to be explained nowadays NOT trough a common book but trough a Wiki html document, and, as far as i know, ONLY VoodooPad can do it easily like writing a book with chapters, definitions, notes, bibliography, quotes, each one referring to other ones!
If only anyone (having something to say!) woud know this 'TOOL", his chances to can persuade, explain, be easily understood, quickly and happily, would be by far bigger!!
Fan Control
GianMarco-Tavazzani reviewed on 06 May 2012
- after installing, as you can read in the troubleshootings, you can't see the preference pane. (don't fall in panic, simply restart system preferences).
- if your Mac has only one fan, it can't recognise it and SCARES YOU by telling that the second fan is down, so… why not doing something to eliminate this anxiogenic false information?
Appriority
GianMarco-Tavazzani reviewed on 03 May 2012
I could make examples of confusing statement about what is suspended in a window and not in another one, what should work but is not.
But then... a good guide for the most popular and CPU sucking apps should be there (Chrome helpers, renders and other long lists of mysterious processes, most of them for sure 'suspendable' but not without risks of bad behaviours like toggling between applications
Dupe Away
I tried this on the very little library on my MBAir, results:
-6 duplicates, in detail:
-the first 3 were two different versions 29 seconds different (same title and author) and, even worst, one was a VIDEO!, so they're not a real duplicate.
- the last 3 were the video and the pure audio version, same time, this time, nevertheless not reason enough to consider them 'duplicates'.
I already used other duplicate finder apps and I deleted unfortunately some duplicate, yes, but of a corrupted file (the ones who can't be played till the end and let iTunes jump to the next one, another very annoying still not solved problem of iTunes!).
Before to consider 'duplicate' a file, it should be deeply analyzed, if not, it should be named 'similar' and, possibly, listed IN WHAT they differs and in what they're IDENTICAL.
Tags and slightly different names or infos could result in a slightly different size of the whole file while the content is identical, in this case list as identical file with different attachments.
Shortly, this program still needs a heap of work to match the real needs of the rest of us, even more if we have to work on a real LIBRARY of tenth of thousands of files or more!
WeatherMin
Hard to give 'a rating' of 'features, stability and ease of use' a product that I can't evaluate (this is why I miss so much Version Tracker!) and sorry to have been forced by this site to do it.
BUT… let YOU ME finally try it (means make it WORK, damn!) and I promise indulgence!
+2
Skype
GianMarco-Tavazzani reviewed on 24 Mar 2011
Beside the kid's interface, I never understood why they deleted the history feature and will not consider the 5 version as professional as the 2.8 till they can reintroduce it also in this absolutely not needed 'upgrade to 5'.
I suggest Skype to keep evolving the 2.8 for serious uses (call it Skype Pro 2.9) and Ok, insist to give this funny toy to the beginner customers, the ones who also likes msn!!!!!
Appriority
Say Mail, Skype, but many other background applications, should be never totally stopped in background.
Probably two enhancements would be useful: a % ony reduction of the activity, an upper limit of it (means: stay active in background but not more than… say 1% of the CPU) with a kind of 'stop and go', without that the activity of Appriority becomes itself too high.
Even a good help about which apps should not be stopped to not regret to have done it.
YouTube to MP3
"Can I be sure that the resulting file is the smallest 'lossless' that I can have starting by the .flv file?"
Get Tube downloads whatever at 192 kB/", a bit optimistic, perhaps, other at 64 the same file…
This of the 'minimum LOSSLESS conversion is an unanswered issue also for .jpg and .mp4 files by YEARS!
CCN X
Rating the product without even only having seen it open would be unfair but… come yourself to the (tragic) conclusions…)
WeatherMin
Hard to give 'a rating' of 'features, stability and ease of use' a product that I can't evaluate (this is why I miss so much Version Tracker!) and sorry to have been forced by this site to do it.
BUT… let YOU ME finally try it (means make it WORK, damn!) and I promise indulgence!