Mike Kornienko
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+6
Espresso
Macd reviewed on 08 Nov 2011
- no search/filter by CSS rules (come on! how am I supposed to navigate anything but less than a few lines of CSS code?)
- CSS tool panel's usability is much worse than CSSEdit 2 (tools layout/selection and the way it resizes itself
I paid for the software, and it just sits there gathering dust. No idea what devs' priorities are, but so far, as a CSSEdit replacement, it is just a money well wasted.
+4
BBEdit
Macd reviewed on 19 Jul 2011
I did a quick run of a demo version of version 10, and it looks the same to me. Nothing much have changed.
- the project window is still nothing close in usability to Textmate
- it still takes AGES opening big files (100+ MB server log files), eventhough Mac OS X's TextEdit opens them immediately. That's on a quad-core i7 iMac with 16GB of RAM
- it still is extremely anal about text encoding of text files. Well, sometimes text files just don't have one encoding. Some things might get broken, encodings get mixed. In that case, good luck trying to make BBEdit to open that file. It will complain about some character somewhere in text is in how it should be. Annoying. I like how it is possible to set several encodings for BBEdit to try before giving up. Unfortunately, that won't help for mixed/broken encodings.
- new preferences panel is a UI from hell. WHY would it resize itself? I have no problems with auto-resizing panels, but only if toolbar is on top, not on the left. And overall, new preferences panel just looks like the old one with icons and annoying auto-resizing added
- visual hinting in editor is a joke. They position themselves as a good HTML editor, but there's still NO WAY to visually find out which DIV I'm closing! Come one, every single editor I know of, has this feature. Pathetic.
- the pricing scheme is, to put it simple, big welcome to new customers and one big salty middle finger to old customers who supported the company over the years.
All the above said, I really don't see why should I give the company "only 40 bucks" for UPGRADE, or erm.. is it re-purchase? With basic stuff not working right, with company's arrogance over the YEARS, and with nothing radically new in latest version, I think we're seeing BBEdit doing it's last (cheap) performance on its way to the retirement land of once-good software.
And lastly, if you need a really powerful HTML, or PHP editor, just put the money into WebStorm or PHPStorm. These are extremely fine products that work fast, extremely full-featured and are created by folks who (mostly) care about their customer base. (I'm not associated with these guys of course - just a happy user).
+2
SOHO Notes
Macd reviewed on 20 Feb 2011
The application itself work pretty good. It is not perfect, but I think it is the best offer on the market currently if you need integration between Mac and iPhone.
Speaking of integration/sync - there are still huge amounts of stability problems. Many times sync won't complete, hang in the middle of operation, complete prematurely, leaving everything in unsynchronized state.
The company seems to be working on more stabile sync, but so far, I'm yet to see any progress AT ALL in that area. Only promises, and for a long time now.
They also promised cloud-based sync, but at this point, they seem to not even started working in the implementation.
But overall, I'm happy with the software. I wish there were competitors, but so far there aren't. Yojimbo could be the closest one, but the laziness of BareBones folks is beyond any common sense (still no iPhone client?? Come on!). And I'm not even talking about Evernote, which STILL doesn't have note-level encryption.
+4
Skype
Macd reviewed on 28 Jan 2011
+4
Google Chrome
Macd reviewed on 13 Jan 2011
+9
The Hit List
stop this version fapping. just extend it a year at a time, or better a decade. or just remove the expiration at all?
+1
Navicat for MySQL
Macd reviewed on 14 Dec 2010
Navicat does absolutely everything I need. Transfers, queries, data/structure sync, SSH/HTTP tunneling..
And support is beyond incredible! I files a crashing bug to them and got it fixed, AND the updated version of the program released in under 48hrs. I'm shocked!
It is indeed an expensive tool, but considering how much time it'll save you in a long run, and hourly rate of almost any DBA/programmer who do DBs for living, the price is rather easily justifiable.
Highly recommended.
+3
Yojimbo
It really surprises me they STILL don't have an iPhone client for Yojimbo. I mean.. this version adds an export to some web-friendly format, so users can put everything in iPhone/iPad? Though I guess it is useful, but come to think about it - what a joke. Why not just have an iPhone client, charge for it some extra, and give users mobility?
That approach definitely worked for Soho Notes, along with their iPhone client NoteLife. Being paid user of Yojimbo, I abandoned the ship when Soho Notes (and then NoteLife) was released. Paid for both and though they have their own quirks, I'm pretty happy how everything works overall. And Soho Notes have some very useful features like in-app import from scanner etc. Never looked back..
World is becoming mobile, and this happens very fast (if not already happened) thanks to iPhone and iPad etc. BareBones seems to be missing the changes and losing potential customers with position like that. But who am I to tell them :) I mean.. why am I writing this at all, as I'm already other company's customer? Guess its because I really liked Yojimbo during the time I was using it and it just looks weird how priorities in development are set by BareBones.
Apple Aperture
Macd reviewed on 09 Feb 2010
I have been trying out the trial of Aperture 3 since yesterday, trying to import my iPhoto library (which is around 20K images and videos, 180Gb - probably larger than many, but pro software is supposed to support even bigger collections, right?).
Anyways, long story short, Aperture crashed on m„u 8 times during import, it stopped importing one time (I tried to leave it to import for the night, and when came back, it was at the same pics as it was when I went off to bed), and basically, it never worked for me more than may be 15 minutes.
I don't know what kind of QA Apple did on this product, but constant crashes didn't even let me to actually try this software. Crash, crash, crash, freeze...
I'll be waiting for the update and hope my trial serial still works by that time.
Yeah, I put 1 star to every feature, because the software just doesn't plain works for any prolonged period of time. (I tried it on Core i7 top of the line iMac with 8GB of RAM..)
+2
+62
But seriously, as I was evaluating Aperture for real-world usage, I definitely need my whole iPhoto library imported properly, including faces, places, videos, etc.. This way, I can test everything against my real-life usage patterns, and see if Aperture comes to the same crawl as iPhoto currently does (which is my biggest gripe with iPhoto, actually).
I checked Apple's discussion boards, and it looks like there's a fair amount of users having problem upgrading their A2 and iPhoto libs.. Some folks even moved too fast and converted their A2 libs to A3 format, and now can't make Aperture 3 to work (or even load properly).
As for bug reports, Apple already got no less than 20 of them, via their automated system (I really wanted to make Aperture work the way I need) :) I could file a report via Apple's BugReporter, but I'm pretty sure that a few Aperture engineers already have their asses on hot plates at Apple, so I don't think any of my input will actually increase speed of fixing this mess.
But currently I'd go as far as to say we all are participating in one big beta test :) Hope an update comes sooner than later.
+3
SteerMouse
Macd reviewed on 09 Dec 2009
However, every time my Mac returned from sleep, it lost its settings. I have emailed the author, and got a response that it is a known problem, even received some script I was supposed to launch in order to reload drivers after sleep. The problem is, the script almost never worked. Had to unplug and plug the USB dongle every time.
This is a 1.5 years ago story. The problem exists this long, and it never was fixed. Author just doesn't really care it seems.
Recently though, I have purchased Kensington's Expert Mouse trackball, which comes with its own set of drivers. Installed them in addition to SteerMouse, and now when using the trackball, the cursor started to suddenly jump around.
Long story short, tried to replace SteerMouse with USB Overdrive, and the problem gone!
Now, I have switched to USB Overdrive completely. It is better software with more responsible developer and less bugs. And it doesn't conflict with MouseWorks driver for my trackball.
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