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Id Ego

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SixtyFour 1.0.5
(Demo)

Swift Publisher 3.0.1
(Shareware)

Soundfly 1.0.1
(Free)

Printopia 2.1.6
(Demo)

Currency Converter 1.9
(Free)

Hands Off! 2.0.1
(Demo)

The Unarchiver 3.2
(Free)

XBMC 11.0
(Free)

The Unarchiver 3.2
(Free)

Hands Off! 2.0.1
(Demo)

Little Snitch 2.5.2
(Demo)

Browser 1.1.7
(Free)

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SuperDuper!

Id_Ego_SuperEgo reviewed on 28 Mar 2012

There's a lot of good software for OS X. But I've rarely seen so much effort put both into development and into CRM. Excellent software, has been most useful through the years…

Dave's support is top notch: brisk, to the point, friendly.

[Version 2.6.4]

Speed Download

Id_Ego_SuperEgo reviewed on 15 Mar 2012

A very considerate developer. Good support…

[Version 5.3.0]

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Apple iOS

Id_Ego_SuperEgo commented on 07 Mar 2012

Well, useless to hope for Apple to fix ALL audio! With the volume maxed out to the brim, I can hardly hear my music.

Also, I want proper Siri functionality (and greater accuracy) in: British English (I don't speak redneck, I don't live in the States of Redneck). Also, SIRI keyboard input doesn't work at all half the time.
Additionally, I want Dutch, Russian & Armenian added to Siri!

Last, but not least: I want Swype as an alternative, on-the-fly-switchable (much like the language-specific keyboards) system-wide input, to compliment the regular one.

[Version 5.1]

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Spotify

Id_Ego_SuperEgo reviewed on 22 Dec 2011

Slows the computer considerably (more so than iTunes). Shoves ads in my face. The "share to…" quasi-feature inadvertently dismisses my post (while being composed). Conclusion: don't tinker with code if you've no conception of how software is written.

[Version 0.8.0.1035]

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Meta

Id_Ego_SuperEgo reviewed on 15 Dec 2011

Bought it as a MacUpdate Promo item in January 2011. Never receieved a serial number. Emailed support@macupdate.com, but to no avail. The developer has no Support page. I can try to email him, but since the very rapid version 2 launch requesting my version 1.x serial number hardly makes no sense. This is a tricky one.

[Version 2.0.1]

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Id_Ego_SuperEgo replied on 15 Dec 2011

Thank you. I already have, in January. To no avail. I shall re-try.

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-60

Id_Ego_SuperEgo replied on 16 Dec 2011

Email resent. So far no response.

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Id_Ego_SuperEgo replied on 17 Dec 2011

Problem solved. Thank you, MacUpdate.

X Lossless Decoder

Id_Ego_SuperEgo rated on 12 Dec 2011
[Version 20111211]

DAA Converter

Id_Ego_SuperEgo rated on 08 Dec 2011
[Version 1.3]

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Adobe Lightroom

Id_Ego_SuperEgo reviewed on 05 Nov 2011

On top of my earlier complaints, I must stress that the exported jpegs retain little (if any at all) of the original metadata. For instance, both the Finder and EXIF viewers, such as Exif Everywhere, will show the export date as the file creation date. In other words, an image shot in, say, December 2007, and exported in November of 2011 will show November 2011 under EXIF data, not 2007. Likewise, much else of metadata is lost on export. I'm sure, grannies and grandpas don't care - and will be quite pleased with Lightroom (although, I suspect, for them iPhoto will pose a sufficient challenge to use, let alone a so-called "Pro" RAW editor/database app).

Again, everything I noted in my earlier review is as relevant now as it were in the time of my original review. Lightroom hasn't moved a millimetre further - if anything, it has deteriorated even more.

[Version 3.5]

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Id_Ego_SuperEgo replied on 16 Dec 2011

I'll reiterate: both Finder, Exif Everywhere (I presume, any Exif reader?) fail to recognise the original RAW capture date of a JPG export (yes, all precautions were taken and "Minimise embedded Metadata" was unchecked).

Another issue (or the next in line of missing properties): a comparison (C) between two images in Develop mode (so as to manually match a certain parameters - in the instance in question it is a RAW to be matched to a TIFF. In other words, adjustments can't be synced from one to the other). This isn't the case in the Library Mode. Why on Earth?

No proper, extensive geotagging implementation.
Can anyone explain how exactly version 3.6 differs from verison 2.0 - and whether the modicum of features added was worth the upgrade? I don't think so.

That said, I allow that its UI is very clean. With such rather limited a feature set, why wouldn't it be?

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Id_Ego_SuperEgo replied on 16 Dec 2011

@Pl_svn: Exactly: since these aren't both RAW files (or even TIFF, JPG, PSD), syncing the adjustments obviously won't work. The problem is, I can't approximate the .CR2 to the .TIFF manually in the Develop module without going navigating between the two images back and forth and adjusting the .CR2 appropriately. What I'd do instead (there's comes my complaint) is manually tweak the .CR2 to visually match the TIFF in Compare view under the Develop module. Comparing these two images in the Library module works, but in the Library module one obviuosly can't extensively adjust the image. In the Develop module, however, the Compare command (with two different images selected) will compare the the before & after snapshot of a single image. In other words, I choose an image, Command-click another, invoke "Compare" [C] - but end up comparing the Before-After states of óne of the images. That - while I have 2 images selected to compare these to one another! Changing hundred times from Develop to Library and vice versa (or performing nursery-level edits in the Library module, i.e., clicking and re-clicking exposure or contast arrows until you are - very unlikely - satisfied with the result) isn't exactly an example of a fluent workflow.

-60

Id_Ego_SuperEgo replied on 01 Jan 2012

"'cause no photographer will ever need to "copy" to one of his raws the "effects" he has seen on some jpg/tiff/younameit seen or grabbed from the net :-/" - this sentence makes no sense: as things stand now, I wouldn't reckon to apply a day's worth of work in photoshop on a reference PSD/TIFF to a RAW in LightRoom. I assume, you still don't quite get me - or for convenience's sake you pretend not to. I just want to see these two images (yes, in different formats, yes, one retouched extensively) next to one another in the Develop module to visually compare one to the other, while applying general colour/ White Balance, HSL, exposure, localised adjustments, graduated filters, etc. - before proceeding to converting the RAW to PSD/TIFF to edit in PS.

"…he has seen on some jpg/tiff /younameit seen or grabbed from the net." - where on earth did you fantasise that! Have you read a reference in my comments to "some jpg/tiff /younameit seen or grabbed from the net."

As for the arrow keys, just as well I could resort to switching from Finder's Quick Look (which, by the way, renders colour quite differently than Lightroom) - and LightRoom - why, equally as "streamlined" a workflow…

Postbox

Id_Ego_SuperEgo commented on 05 Nov 2011

Appears to have caused the vast majority (about 99%) of my inbox content in MobileMe (iCloud) and Gmail to disappear, both on my Mac and on the server. Watch out for suprises of this kind.

[Version 3.0.1]

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Apple Mail Updater

Id_Ego_SuperEgo reviewed on 05 Nov 2011

The idiocy called "Mail.app" gobbled up all 99% of my MobileMe ("iCloud") and Gmail inboxes. Thank you, Apple, you spit at my face once again. Go bankrupt, for goodness' sake!

[Version 1.0]

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Id_Ego_SuperEgo replied on 08 Mar 2012

@Younkint - or watered your name. Had you spit that rubbish in my face, I'd spank you into a lengthy oblivion. Now, idiot, put your cowboy hat on and proceed preaching gospel.
It's of little relevance now, but you were peeing in your mother's womb around the time I purchased my first Mac.
Mind this, idiot: you never give one you know nothing about an unasked for advice. Could cost you a shattered temple and a jaw to boot.

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1Password

Id_Ego_SuperEgo had trouble on 08 Aug 2011

safari-extension://com.agilebits.onepassword-safari-2BUA8C4S2C

Data not available. Please open and unlock 1Password app to update extension data.

I've got a few nice screenshots for you, along with a diagnostics report. Shall I add that I'm using, as of now (I've tried all of them since the Lion launch) the latest version, 3.7.2: I'm not spilling my time to get advised to resort to using the very version I'm on now.

Since the upgrade to Lion, this thing never worked. It either popped up a scramble of out of allignment signs and letters, checkboxes and goodness knows what when clicked the "1P" button in Safari - or nothing at all, or asked for the password to be typed (which I did, but, as you may understand, to no avail - never managed to unlock the thing) - and now, having gotten rid of all my backups (the last one stored elsewhere safely), completely uninstalled the "app", uninstalled and reinstalled the Safari extension a hundred times or so, deleted the scramble from Safari's Extension folder (user library), reinstalled the app - tabula rasa - once again - and my accomplishments - or should I say, your program's - are as follow:

safari-extension://com.agilebits.onepassword-safari-2BUA8C4S2C

Data not available. Please open and unlock 1Password app to update extension data.

Not much of a progress, or dare you beg to differ?
By the way, to the chaps at Agile Bits. Be reasonable enough not to give users duly critical of your app at its current form (it used to be the best. It is rubbish since Lion) thumbs down. That sort of blatant self-promotion does alienate a few, myself included. You don't want your former customers to see you in the same light as the MacDefender's authors are seen, do you?

Find a solution to this mess before half your users abandon you.

I'm on the verge of giving up on this thing.

[Version 3.7.2]

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Id_Ego_SuperEgo replied on 09 Aug 2011

Thank you, @Brenty. The issues are resolved. I managed to find the solution a couple of before receiving your response. It now appears that I've got no more gripes about what used to be - and still is - the best password manager for OS X (except for that hunting license nonsense: quite incomprehensible, you'd cater stenchy rednecks at least as much as for men and women of propriety). Thank you for the oct, at any rate.

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Id_Ego_SuperEgo replied on 09 Aug 2011

SIMBL.osax was the culprit. Once removed, all the 1Password issues (incl. the unclickable "1P" button issue, the scramble I referred to in my earlier post, the failure of the "Enter" key press to show the logins for the - really, any given - login page) got instantly resolved.
Some will have, as you know better than myself, the SIMBL.osax installed in ~/Library/ScriptingAdditions/, others - in /Library/ScriptingAdditions/.

-60

Id_Ego_SuperEgo replied on 10 Aug 2011

In my general Library "Scripting Additions" folder I had these nested:

- Satimage.osax (v. 3.3.0)

- TotalFinder.osax (v. 1.2.1 now. I recall, somewhat vaguely, I updated it a couple of days ago).

- SIMBL.osax (v. 0.9.7)

In my User Library "Scripting Additions" folder I had:

- Default Folder X Addition.osax (the current version?)

- FolderGlance.osax (v. 3.0.2)

- Paperless Addition.osax (v. 2.0.4)

It appears, none of the scripting additions installed, with the exception of the SIMBL.osax, interferes with 1Password Safari extension operation. Confirmed: SIMBL.osax is the sole culprit here. There may be more, but thank goodness not amidst the ones installed in my system.

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Id_Ego_SuperEgo replied on 10 Aug 2011

You're welcome, Brenty.
Thank you for your infinite effort (for the most part, that is. I've duly expressed my solemn reservations on the hunting license thing, but at least you don't actively help the scum harass or kill animals): I've seen developers cease their work on some excellent apps, following poor or insufficient reception by their respective user base. But you obviously keep outdoing yourselves, making therewith lots of users' happy (in regards related). It would be a shame if, with as much effort as you put into the development of 1Password, the app did not become the most popular, most appreciated password management solution for Macintosh, iOS and since a while, Windows, users.

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