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Paul Randall

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Remotix 0.9.2
(Free)

Amadeus Pro 2.0.8
(Demo)

Flip4Mac WMV Player 2.4.4.2
(Free)

Dropbox 1.4.7
(Free)

HoudahSpot 3.5.4
(Demo)

Back-In-Time 2.2.1
(Demo)

Apple Aperture 3.2.4
(Updater)

Photomatix Pro 4.2.1
(Demo)

Tex-Edit Plus X 4.9.13
(Shareware)

Silverlight 5.1.10411.0
(Free)

iScrapbook 3.3.5
(Demo)

iClipboard 4.1.4
(Demo)

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PacketStream

Paulsrandall commented on 14 Apr 2012

I downloaded this and tried monitoring ports, but see just a blank screen. I also tried Cocoa Packet Analyzer and it shows a wealth of information. I've checked settings and everything looked fine. I know that I have port activity because both Hands Off! and Little Snitch show lots of activity in their monitor windows.

[Version 5.0.0]

TurboTax

Paulsrandall reviewed on 21 Feb 2012

I know that there's lots of negative reviews, but TurboTax 2011 has worked great for me. I know the updating is slower, but that does not matter as much as how well it works. I've used this software for many years. This year I was able to import much more of my financial information, including even my W2 from work. I was done with my taxes in no time. The only problem I had was the initial update in either late November or early December. It just would not update, but it offered up a manual download to use for the update. That worked great and every update since that time has worked great.

[Version 2011.r09.015]

RockMelt

Paulsrandall reviewed on 20 Oct 2011

Terrible, terrible, terrible. This thing has done nothing, but crash, crash, crash. It seems to be overly fussy, working only on a freshly installed system with no 3rd party software installed. Once anything else is installed, this application fails every time.

[Version 0.9.68.1374]

Appsolete

Paulsrandall commented on 27 Jul 2011

What I'd like to see it located is some of those embedded applications like svn. I keep getting a couple of errors from things on my system that use a PowerPC version of svn. I already found all of the applications and removed the ones I do not want anymore. There a some that have updates coming, so I left those there. Embedded PowerPC applications is what I'm looking to remove.

[Version 1.0b4]

Elements

Paulsrandall commented on 10 Apr 2011

Check for update in version 2.3 to version 2.3.1 generates:

Update Error!

An error occurred while downloading the update. Please try again later.

[Version 2.3.1]

Attachment Tamer

Paulsrandall reviewed on 13 Mar 2011

This latest major release (3.0) is by far the cleanest looking interface of all, as I have used version 1.x and 2.x. Little used settings were removed and great new ones added. I particularly like having the ability to show the attachments at the top of the message. One simple right click on an icon and you have your attachment in all its glory. This is if you want to see an attachment. Many times you do not and that is where Attachment Tamer shines. Best of all, it is free to version 1.x and 2.x registered users.

[Version 3.0]

Hands Off!

Paulsrandall reviewed on 11 Mar 2011

VirusBarrier caused problems with Hands Off!, but version 1.2.1 comes to the rescue. Install it. You may see that it can't install because of the earlier conflict from VirusBarrier. Go to the Hands Off! menu and run the uninstaller. Delete the Hands Off! configuration application after this is done, then copy version 1.2.1 to your applications folder and launch. You'll be very happy that you did, just like I am.

[Version 1.2.1]

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Retrospect

Paulsrandall reviewed on 02 Feb 2011

I've used Retrospect since OS 9 and this is by far the best version. It works so much faster than version 6. Restores could not be easier. I noticed comments below that restores of single files are difficult or impossible. Just use the search option and pick the file or files you want to restore and it puts the files in a folder under Macintosh HD or overwrites the file if you choose. I recommend it highly. It is simply unbelievable how much faster than version 6 was at doing backups. It never crashes, hangs or double launches. It is simply rock solid.

[Version 8.2.0.399]

LED Cinema Display Firmware Update

Paulsrandall commented on 16 Dec 2010

This did not fix the real problem with this display. Screen refresh only occurs when you mouse over an area of the screen. The rest of the time it just sits there like you've done nothing.

Note: This problem only occurs with Mozilla browsers Firefox and SeaMonkey, but does not affect Camino. It seems like a Mozilla problem because all other applications on my Mac work fine.

Also, I did not have the audio problem this is supposed to fix.

[Version 1.0]

Tembo

Paulsrandall reviewed on 13 Dec 2010

Nice clean interface, but the amazing thing is how fast it finds lots of information. I get a couple of pages of information in a second.

[Version 1.0 draft 7]

Airfoil

Paulsrandall had trouble on 18 Aug 2011

They need to fix this thing. The Instant On extra make every application made in Real Basic crash, every single one of them. I uninstalled Instant On and everything is back to normal.

[Version 4.5.6]

Books

paulsrandall had trouble on 13 May 2006

I went back to version 2.3.3 beta because the last several 3.0 alpha releases crash short after the application has launched. My crash report has lots of the following line. I mean lots.

net.aetherial.books.Books 0x000088c0 -[BooksAppDelegate refreshComboBoxes:] + 368 (BooksAppDelegate.m:777)

Any ideas?

[Version 3.0a14]

D-Vision

paulsrandall had trouble on 29 Apr 2006

How do you get this to work? It runs an endless loop trying to install the Dynamic Libraries. They never install making it impossible to launch D-Vision. Fix it and I can rate it.

[Version 3.2.1]

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