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Jim Harris

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I have been a professional photographer since 1979. In the early years, I traveled with my Canon A-1 and Linhof Technika 4x5 view camera photographing the American West, amassing a stock photo library of over 10,000 transparencies. I now shoot exclusively digital with Nikon equipment, looking to craft outstanding photographs. My photographs have appeared in numerous ads, books, magazines, and on magazine covers. Assignments have included such clients as the National Park Service and U.S. Electricar.

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Apple Aperture

Harristype commented on 24 May 2012

For those who are new to Aperture 3, be sure to turn off "Faces" and "Places". These are on by default. This will greatly improve your Aperture performance. I've been using/teaching Aperture for several years now, and 99% of the complaints I receive for how slow it is has to do with these two features being left on. Unless you absolutely need Faces and Places, leave them turned off.

[Version 3.2.4]

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Harristype replied on 25 May 2012

It *should* run, but 2 gigs of RAM is pretty tight for both the operating system and Aperture 3 to be running. I upgraded my 2009 MacBook from 2 gigs to 4 gigs of RAM at Amazon for about $25 (the memory brand was called Crucial, and I installed it myself in about 5 minutes). Aperture 3 now runs flawlessly and fast.

Disk Drill

Harristype reviewed on 18 May 2012

I had accidentally formatted one of my Nikon's SD cards with several AVI (video) files on it. I tried CardRaider, and all it would recover were the NEF raw files. It could see the AVIs, but it would not recover them. I then went to Disk Drill Pro and it was able to also recover the video files. Highly recommended.

[Version 1.8.190]

Folx

Harristype commented on 19 Apr 2012

I find it VERY suspicious that most of the 5-star reviews here are from people who reviewed this app the very day they joined MacUpdate, and only have 2 or 3 reviews total, and a lot of those reviewers also reviewed Elmedia Player, one of Eltima's other products. And Johnyyyy even goes as far as to bash PDFKey Pro (which I have NO problems with) and pdf-Recover, while giving a 5-star rating to Recover PDF Password, another Eltima product.

[Version 2.0.1028]

File Multi Tool

Harristype reviewed on 26 Mar 2012

Because someone else rated this 1/2 star with no reason why, and since I use A Better Finder Attributes and this is the exact same app, but renamed because of Apple, I'm rating this 5 stars. This is a great program, by the same author as A Better Finder Rename, the best renaming utility for the Mac.

[Version 5.13]

Quicken 2007

Harristype commented on 09 Mar 2012

Wow, Quicken 2007 now working for 2012. Talk about a forward-thinking company.

[Version 16.1.0]

Headline

Harristype commented on 01 Mar 2012

Headline has not been discontinued. It's now being offered thought Mac App Store.

[Version 1.5]

Witch

Harristype commented on 14 Feb 2012

So what ever happen to Witch 4, which Many Tricks last mentioned below back on December 8, 2010 (more than 2 years ago)? Count me as another unsatisfied customer who has switched to Optimal Layout (formerly WindowFlow). A 2-year silence from the developer is not good for future business.

[Version 3.7]

TotalFinder

Harristype commented on 07 Feb 2012

Several things seem to be broken or buggy now after upgrading Lion to 10.7.3. Visor behaves very erratically. Performed an uninstall and a reinstall and the same problems persist. Hopefully the dev can get this fixed soon, as this has become one of my indispensable utilities.

[Version 1.3.2]

Numi

Harristype commented on 17 Jan 2012

Very nice. This is like a menubar version of Soulver, but it's free.

[Version 1.02]

MagicPrefs

Harristype had trouble on 07 Dec 2010

There's a problem that I'm having with the new version 2.0. I use the 3-finger click to bring up Spaces, and with the old version, it would stay in Spaces after I released the mouse so that I could choose the Space I wanted to navigate to. With this version, when I press the mouse using the 3-finder click, Spaces pops up, but when I release the mouse, it goes away. Is there a new preference or something similar that I'm missing?

[Version 2]

HyperDock

Harristype had trouble on 22 Nov 2010

I love HyperDock, but the latest version (0.9.12.1) introduced a new problem for me. Without warning, the window previews in the dock will just stop working. The only workaround to getting them back is to open the HyperDock prefpane and the disable, then enable HyperDock. Hopefully the next version will fix this problem.

[Version 0.9.12.1]

PhoneDisk

Harristype had trouble on 03 Mar 2010

Can't really evaluate this, because it crashes EVERY time I choose the Preferences menu option.

[Version 1.001]

Halo

Harristype had trouble on 27 Apr 2007

When trying to update to 2.0.1, I get an immediate message stating "The were errors installing, please try again." Reinstalled from my original Halo UB disk, then tried the updater again, and I get the same error message.

[Version 2.0.1]

Zooom2

Harristype had trouble on 10 Feb 2007

Tried download the DMG for version 1.5 twice. Both times it gave me a "codec overrun" message and wouldn't open.

[Version 1.5]

Application Enhancer

Harristype had trouble on 28 Jun 2006

Version 2.0.1 still has problems with QuicKeys. QuicKeys will lock up after choosing the "Choose Menu" button in creating a new macro. I've sent reports of this to Unsanity, but most of my emails to them go unanswered. I really wish they would fix this. At this point I need QuicKeys more than I need Unsanity's products, so off they go.

[Version 2.0.1]

FontCard

Harristype had trouble on 05 Apr 2006

I'm having a problem with 1.3.2 that happens in several programs. Font styles in submenus cannot be chosen, it only defaults to the main listed font in the main menu. If I'm using ITC Berkeley, and I want to choose the italic version, it won't accept the change and keeps the regular version. The font set is complete, but FontCard won't allow the style change. I have no problems with You Control: Fonts, but I like the fact the FontCard works in the app's own font menu and not a separate one. I've contacted Unsanity twice in the last month via their email tech support and have yet to hear a word. Terrible support!

[Version 1.3.2]

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