Nice app... reminds me of the old freeware PPC application 'CosmicPainter' but it's missing an import and incredibly fun aspect - ie: Motion.
In 'CosmicPainter' you could spin the canvas. Giving a wonderfully psychedelic creative experience. This unfortunately, is really dull in comparison. So for version two Mr.Developer, like a Damien Hirst spin painting... please just let it rotate baby!
A very useful application. Good feature set. An alternative to the 'donationware' Finderpop. Maybe a little too expensive as an impulse purchase. Five to ten would seem a much more seductive opening price. My one concern or caveat, is that the 'four buttons' are just brightly coloured aqua buttons. There should be at least a couple of alternative possibilities within the preference pane. The standard for OS menu items are black and flat. This garish and childlike offering, does let the overall feel of the app down terribly.
Apart from that, it's well worth a try. To see if it enhances your workflow. Grazie e Arrivederci
Good to still see regular updates. Would love for landscape options as well as the standard portrait only ratio sizing. But my personal feature upgrade must be... the ability to move an image within the frame, At the moment, Toycamera just crops to centre. I would like the option to drag the image around a bit. Centre it where the user defines it, that would make this small but useful app near perfect.
The last three reviewers only have one post each, and have been members just for a few days... Please Macupdate, do something about this... these comments must be all from the developer.
What is the difference between this and Desktop Clock?
Why release two seemingly conflicting apps and not explain the difference? Please Mr.Developer... for a commercial only app, with no try before you buy... much more info, a weighty explanation and a plethora of screen shots please.
Ok, so unlike the Finders 'Quick view' this stays about after you click on something else. That's good. But is that all it does... There are no 'tool tips' on the buttons ? You can't drag and drop a selection of your own choosing onto a 'Viewer' window. You can't press a modifier key and select multiple items from within the open command. No automatic advance feature, press a button and watch a slideshow neatly in the viewer window. Which can more useful than fullscreen slideshows, that stop other work dead in it's tracks.
I could go, but you get the general idea. Not the most well thought out software to ever hit the market place.
Overall, it's OK. Cool for the developer to experiment and learn on the job. But surely this should be free ?
It's great that ToonBoom caters for kids. There is little out there in the Mac developer world, specifically aimed at younger users. But unfortunately, this looks as it were design by a juvenile delinquent with ten minutes to kill. It's ugly and un-mac-like. It doesn't look very intuitive for the beginner and not very useful for the more experienced child animator. For forty dollars, you would hope for a lot more development time thrown at a project like this. And thrown, is definitely the right adjective here.
Always on the lookout for a stand alone audio player. Like other comments here, I am a heavy Vox user. Vox unfortunately has a pedestrian development pace. But most annoyingly... is that I find that it crashes far too much when drag n' dropping files onto it.
Which is what I want a stand alone players main functionality to be. Find some music, play it, without any fuss, or unnecessary deleting of playlists or associated files. The Fidelia developers seem to have decided to take on iTunes head on. No drag n' drop at all. Just *fricking playlist hell again. An ugly, antiquated graphic of an audio separate, just kills this off for me immediately... not even easily customisable... The sound from Fidelia is punchy and this app might come in handy at a gathering of friends etc. Crank the interface on 'large' throw on a playlist and it would be at the very least, a conversational starter or two. but for desk bound jockeys, looking for a smart stand alone audio player... no way. But of course, your milage may vary.
Not without it's little oddities and idiosyncrasies'
But if you need a virtual musical format can-opener
and converter - look no further.
This will play nearly everything you can throw at it.
Playing your musical files locally without messing
around with iTunes.
Customizable, versatile and unique.
Highly recommended application to have in your
arsenal, by a great developer.
Won't open - 'The application ViewIt quit unexpectedly.'
Quits repeatedly on double clicking. ( using 10.5.8 )
Previous version on my powerbook is 2.3.7 and works just fine.
The last three reviewers only have one post each, and have been members just for a few days... Please Macupdate, do something about this... these comments must be all from the developer.
I am currently in the UK.
It's an old story I know... But Adobe is still taking the piss
that a product ( PS Upgrade ) sells for $199 US dollars
( Which is £130 UK Pounds )
sells in the UK for £189 pounds ( $288 US Dollars )
I know all the stuff about writing languages conversions
and different taxes etc, etc...
But when it comes down to it - it just stinks.
Leech was released as version 1.0 on May the 7th 2008.
Version 1.1.4 was released two months later on June the 4th.
Then no updates till version 2.0 on March 31st 2010.
For the disappearing act - I suggest starting with a clean sheet.
Free updates should be handed out to everyone who
purchased a license - period.
Does not launch, nothing appears. No visible windows,
no icon in the dock, nothing new in the menubar.
( Max OS X 10.5.8)
Why release software that obviously doesn't work for
many users. Please fix and repost.
My little theory why RC1 and now RC2 both quit
so regularly - that maybe it has something to do with the album artwork.
How Vox handles the artwork, if embedded in the file itself.
After a restart or two, RC2 seems now to be working fine.
Even if no artwork is displayed. Sometimes only half the artwork
shows and the other half is grayed out.
But this is such a great tool.
The menubar 'play' features are very useful and a great idea.
For the Mac, this is a stand out - well designed wonder.
Fantastic export features, all-in-all this really is a must have...
if you ever need a stand alone player. To quickly play files without
including them in your iTunes library, and the mess that can cause.
This is it. To the developer - thank you.
Downloads all now end 'failed' or just unplayable.
( VLC Player or Quicktime )
It started off OK. Last week I was able to download fine.
But today every attempt fails.
Maybe the BBC are not happy with Mac users
being able to download their content ?
Pity as this was great to be able to download
and watch later, kind of a 'one-off' tool.
If anyone else knows a way to cache BBC iPlayer
material I would be grateful for a heads up on it.
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SpiralArt
In 'CosmicPainter' you could spin the canvas. Giving a wonderfully psychedelic creative experience. This unfortunately, is really dull in comparison. So for version two Mr.Developer, like a Damien Hirst spin painting... please just let it rotate baby!
-1
Application Wizard
Leo Spill reviewed on 07 Nov 2011
Apart from that, it's well worth a try. To see if it enhances your workflow. Grazie e Arrivederci
Toycamera AnalogColor
Leo Spill reviewed on 24 Jun 2011
Viewer
Leo Spill reviewed on 10 May 2011
Dock Clock
Why release two seemingly conflicting apps and not explain the difference? Please Mr.Developer... for a commercial only app, with no try before you buy... much more info, a weighty explanation and a plethora of screen shots please.
-1
Viewer
Leo Spill reviewed on 08 Apr 2011
I could go, but you get the general idea. Not the most well thought out software to ever hit the market place.
Overall, it's OK. Cool for the developer to experiment and learn on the job. But surely this should be free ?
Flip Boom Cartoon
Leo Spill reviewed on 03 Apr 2011
Fidelia
Which is what I want a stand alone players main functionality to be. Find some music, play it, without any fuss, or unnecessary deleting of playlists or associated files. The Fidelia developers seem to have decided to take on iTunes head on. No drag n' drop at all. Just *fricking playlist hell again. An ugly, antiquated graphic of an audio separate, just kills this off for me immediately... not even easily customisable... The sound from Fidelia is punchy and this app might come in handy at a gathering of friends etc. Crank the interface on 'large' throw on a playlist and it would be at the very least, a conversational starter or two. but for desk bound jockeys, looking for a smart stand alone audio player... no way. But of course, your milage may vary.
+3
Vox
Leo Spill reviewed on 06 Jan 2011
But if you need a virtual musical format can-opener
and converter - look no further.
This will play nearly everything you can throw at it.
Playing your musical files locally without messing
around with iTunes.
Customizable, versatile and unique.
Highly recommended application to have in your
arsenal, by a great developer.
+3
Deskovery
It's a no brainer, needs to under ten bucks.
ViewIt
Quits repeatedly on double clicking. ( using 10.5.8 )
Previous version on my powerbook is 2.3.7 and works just fine.
Viewer
+4
Adobe Photoshop CS6
It's an old story I know... But Adobe is still taking the piss
that a product ( PS Upgrade ) sells for $199 US dollars
( Which is £130 UK Pounds )
sells in the UK for £189 pounds ( $288 US Dollars )
I know all the stuff about writing languages conversions
and different taxes etc, etc...
But when it comes down to it - it just stinks.
+3
WindowShade X
I paid for all Unsanity's Haxies back in the day,
and while I know they regret it - they said 'all future upgrades would be free'
+2
Leech
Version 1.1.4 was released two months later on June the 4th.
Then no updates till version 2.0 on March 31st 2010.
For the disappearing act - I suggest starting with a clean sheet.
Free updates should be handed out to everyone who
purchased a license - period.
+1
myQuickSearch
no icon in the dock, nothing new in the menubar.
( Max OS X 10.5.8)
Why release software that obviously doesn't work for
many users. Please fix and repost.
MPlayer OSX Extended
Looks really great - Just hope this 'check for updates'
crash is sorted soon.
+1
Vox
My little theory why RC1 and now RC2 both quit
so regularly - that maybe it has something to do with the album artwork.
How Vox handles the artwork, if embedded in the file itself.
After a restart or two, RC2 seems now to be working fine.
Even if no artwork is displayed. Sometimes only half the artwork
shows and the other half is grayed out.
But this is such a great tool.
The menubar 'play' features are very useful and a great idea.
For the Mac, this is a stand out - well designed wonder.
Fantastic export features, all-in-all this really is a must have...
if you ever need a stand alone player. To quickly play files without
including them in your iTunes library, and the mess that can cause.
This is it. To the developer - thank you.
+8
Leech
No fixes for sites - the app balks at ?
Very disappointing developer interest in this project
for a fee based application.
iPlayer Downloader
( VLC Player or Quicktime )
It started off OK. Last week I was able to download fine.
But today every attempt fails.
Maybe the BBC are not happy with Mac users
being able to download their content ?
Pity as this was great to be able to download
and watch later, kind of a 'one-off' tool.
If anyone else knows a way to cache BBC iPlayer
material I would be grateful for a heads up on it.