Njronbo
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Sparrow
Njronbo reviewed on 07 Jun 2011
However....
Apple has just put Sparrow Mail out of business.
Their upcoming MAIL on Lion not only matches, but succeeds this piece of software in every way. I don't know how Sparrow even plans to offer something as beautiful as what is in store for Lion users.
It was nice knowing you, Sparrow!
+25
Agee with you. If you are using an older OS after Lion's release SPARROW is what too Apple years to finally accomplish.
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Both email programs are absolutely identical now with an edge given to Lion.
The one thing that Sparrow has over Lion is Facebook Integration, which I kind of like. Sparrow imports the facial icons directly from Facebook so all the faces of your friends appear in the list of waiting emails. With Lion, it only pulls contact picture information out of your address book so only those contacts with pictures attached will show up with such in your email. That is the ONE big advantage Sparrow has.
However, Lion has done an incredible job with the message portion of their email client. You may have noticed this in the keynote video, but when you have multiple replies to one email thread, those replies are neatly listed (and numbered) with all excessive quoting garbage removed. I have never seen anything quite remarkable as how neatly Apple mail messages are displayed.
Also, when you reply to a message there is some really neat animation where the reply box jumps out from the email program itself. When you send that reply, the box flies upscreen and disappears.
Where does Lion Mail fall short that Sparrow could improve upon? Custom colorization of every field would be a start. I used to use a Windows email client called "Pico" that, for example, allowed you to color the message list yellow and the message body blue. In a way, it was like creating your own skin. I don't believe Sparrow or Apple Mail allows full color customizations but that would be where I would start.
In the meantime, Lion Mail has the edge here.
Fantastical
Njronbo reviewed on 23 May 2011
It has the potential of earning 5 stars except for two major shortfalls...
1. You click on the calendar to select a date, and the actual entry box will not change to that calendar's date. You actually need to manually enter the date on the date line.
2. No time. You can't manually enter an appointment time for your event -- at least none that I could see.
+25
The software works as advertised. You simply type something like:
"Dentist Appointment Saturday May 7th 2-3pm"
Everything gets automatically populated.
It's actually pretty amazing. So, 5-stars for this program!
Booxter
Njronbo reviewed on 09 Mar 2011
Program immediately crashes when trying to import 2,500 titles from DVDPedia.
Beware this program if you have large libraries to import
Booxter
Still cannot handle large imports from DVDPedia.
Booxter
Njronbo reviewed on 06 Dec 2010
+7
BusyCal
$50 for one license? $80 if you want a copy on your laptop and desktop?!
How can you price a piece of software like this at that level?
Realistically, the software should be $25 and additional licenses $15.
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NewsTicker
Constantly crashes under Snow Leopard.
Don't bother writing the developer. They don't answer emails. Sent several asking if they will update for Snow Leopard.
So, while they are still thinking about it, there is a FAR BETTER news ticker that just came out called ZipLine.
Search for reviews here. Far nicer than Newsticker and it is 100% stable under Snow Leopard.
Zipline
Njronbo reviewed on 05 Aug 2010
Found this program by accident.
I used to use a program called Newsticker which was originally written for Leopard. I consider Newsticker to be an exceptional news feed program.
Two years ago Apple released Snow Leopard and Newsticker would constantly crash. In fact, I have been using Newsticker up until today on a daily basis for the past two years and not a day has gone by that I haven't had to restart the program over and over a few times simply because my mouse accidentally hit the ticker.
So, today I discover Zipline. Really nice news ticker. Far more streamlined, but a little less configurable. For instance, you can select scroll speed and width but you can't make the ticker itself larger or smaller. It sort of defaults to whatever screen size your Mac is currently set at.
Really great that it allows iCal appointments to reside in the ticker but the information is a bit misleading because the iCal icon always shows one date instead of the specific date your event is scheduled for. For instance, I have a few events showing up in the ticker for different days but the icons all show the 17th.
Otherwise, thus far, no problems whatsoever. I do hope the developer enhances this product further.
+25
Seems to be a major problem with this software at the moment.
The news feed stops after approx. 20-30 minutes of constant running.
It has nothing to do with any of the preference settings as I spoke with
the software developer and was told my settings were correct.
It's a bug. The software developer is aware of it and I am hoping he will
be able to fix it and release a new version that corrects this issue.
+25
This week, the author released an update, version 1.0.1
Very happy to report that all the problems in the initial release have been fixed. The RSS feeds continually display.
Additionally, the iCal events displayed in the ticker contain a date in the icon that actually corresponds to the date of the event.
So, in essence, this software went from being great to perfect.
Want a reliable news feed ticker across the top of your desktop? I highly recommend this program.
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BusyCal
However, the cost of this program is just inane.
I wrote the developer with my concerns over the cost -- especially when buying additional licenses for more than one computer. The developer was very quick to reply stating that the software costs them a lot of money to develop but they will be coming out with more family-friendly licenses.
I understand the labor and costs involved in programs like these, but $50 for a single license and $80 just to have it on two computers is just incredibly expensive for a calendar enhancement program.
Frankly, the developer could sell more copies and make a better profit if the priced were shaved somewhat.
Kudos to the developer for addressing my email concerns.
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SuperSync
though not much has changed.
But first, to the person that said "not true" about my comment that Supersync
does not work between a wired and wireless computer....
It's great you are able to work it under Airport network conditions, but it will
not work with a simple wired router and wireless signal. Tried to work through
this with the developer and even he admitted that most of the time it will not work.
What I wanted to update everyone on is that contrary to my previous comments,
the developer has been very active with me in trying to get the software to work.
Unfortunately, I have ended up receiving a refund.
While the music files synched perfectly between both computers, the problem lied
with the playlists that did not synch. So, in my case, with lots of playlists, they
would not be updated when the music files were ported over.
I will say that the developer felt that my case was special because I had the same
account on two computers. He felt that if both computers had duplicate accounts
that the software might not synch the playlists correctly.
My advisement would be for everyone to fully test this software prior to purchasing.
I did want to give credit though to Brad at Supersync who indeed showed great
interest in assisting me through my problems.
SoundSource
that under Snow Leopard SoundSource does not save
your settings.
This means every time you boot it defaults back to
internal inputs and the user needs to reset everything.
What is worse is that the authors of the program refuse
to answer email complaints about this problem. I suppose
since it's a freebie you get what you pay for.
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SoundSource
refuse to answer any email asking for support.
Guess you get what you pay for.