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Robio

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Battery Health 2.3
(Free)

Battery Guard 1.1.0
(Free)

Houdini 1.0
(Free)

invisibliX 3.1
(Free)

Lightbulb 1.6.2
(Free)

Artboard 1.4
(Demo)

Insync 0.9.14.17141
(Free)

Kod 0.0.3
(Free)

iBackup 7.4
(Free)

Website Widget 1.3
(Free)

WatchMouse Site Moni... 2.1
(Free)

PocketMoney 2.0.3
(Demo)

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iStat Menus

Robio reviewed on 05 May 2012

I tried several stats apps, and this one was the most reliable, most flexible, and has the best UI for my purposes. I keep just a few of the widgets in my menu bar, and having RAM, CPU and temp at a glance up there, in simple, unobtrusive colors, is very helpful.

[Version 3.22]

HoverZoom Safari Extension

Robio reviewed on 05 May 2012

My favorite Safari extension. Saves a lot of time and hassle. My only beefs are that sometimes large images are slower to load in HoverZoom than if you click to open them in a new tab (this happens a lot on IMDb, for example), and that once in a while it stops working on a given site (usually fixed by a refresh).

[Version 1.2.11]

Fantastical

Robio reviewed on 25 Mar 2012

OK, I'll be "that guy," but I really mean it: Fantastical is fantastic.

The UI is everything iCal is missing. It's like List view in iOS Calendar, but tighter and clearer (e.g., all day events look different than timed events). The ability to edit without going into iCal is great too.

My only gripe: Why can I edit everything EXCEPT the repeat options?

I've always hated iCal, and the fact that no calendar app exists that isn't some minor variation on iCal/Outlook.

This app goes a long way toward making me forget that hatred.

As for the price, we've been spoiled by cheap iOS apps. This is worth $20 to me.

[Version 1.2.2]

Woot.com Widget

Robio reviewed on 05 Dec 2011

I use this widget for every Woot Off. From time to time there are sync or stability issues, but generally speaking they get addressed fairly quickly by the developer.

[Version 4.3.1]

Cashculator Free

Robio commented on 21 Sep 2011

Not freeware. There's apparently a data limit, then it's $29.95. Good luck finding out what the limit is. It's not on the developer's site (that I can find), nor anywhere else.

[Version 1.2.9]

Organized

Robio rated on 17 Aug 2011
[Version 1.11]

MailForge

Robio commented on 27 Jul 2011

I might have considered MailForge if it did the one thing NO other email client has offered since Eudora: and/or/unless conditions in search.

No email app exists anymore where you can perform the following search:

Find all messages from joe@smith.com unless recipients include sara@jones.com.

Sadly, MailForge has the same search parameters as every other email app: Find Any, or Find All, and that's it.

For the record, after a long search and trying about 20 apps, I settled on Postbox.

[Version 2.2.1]

You Control: Tunes

Robio commented on 17 Jul 2011

Why the hell should I have to register and get a serial just to TRY this software? I don't even know if it does what I want it to do. Why should I hand out my personal information if there's a chance I'm going to launch it, find out it only skips tracks (and doesn't FF or RWD), then throw it away? What's the point of requiring a serial for freeware?

[Version 1.7.2]

BeHealthy

Robio reviewed on 09 Jul 2011

Gave this a try because Time Out development is stalled, and this seems to be (suspiciously) close in functionality while being a background app, which Time Out 2 is supposed to become (having to CMD+tab past Time Out drives me crazy).

It's a little buggy (e.g. slider for selecting short-break time periods doesn't work correctly), and I wish the "give me 1 minute" and "give me 5 minutes" buttons when the breaks come on were to DELAY the break, not EXTEND it (who needs that?). But overall I like it...

...EXCEPT...

BeHealthy is a RAM and CPU hog.

Time Out uses 0% CPU between breaks, and only 4.7MB of RAM.
BeHealthy uses 7.9% of CPU between breaks, and 49.3MB of RAM.

Tried to find contact info for the developer to point this out, but to no avail. Hopefully this will be resolved in future betas.

[Version 0.1.6b13]

NicePlayer

Robio reviewed on 22 May 2011

I've made NicePlayer my default. More flexible and better keyboard controls than QuickTime. Easier to use (and 10 times smaller) than VLC. It doesn't have bells and whistles, but it does everything I need, and does it as well or better than anything else I've tried. I hope the developers keep it up to date, although that's looking less and less likely. :(

[Version 0.96.2]

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