Thought this was a terrific app when I first saw it so ponied up for a licence to support the developer. Never used it though. Now I could use it in Lion I find I get to pay all over again for the MAS version. Wouldn't mind if the price was more in line with the use I'd get out of it.
I let it have a go at my well organised and annotated CD RIPS and discovered on one CD of Cecilia Bartoli her name was misspelt 3 different ways, composer names are randomly inserted in track names. In some cases composers are in Artist (how obviously wrong) and names are randomly abbreviated, surname first or last.
So far from "tidying up" my collection, it trashed it.
They mean well but it is a case of garbage in, grabage out when they source their information from the repositories.
I hate to say this, but Apple will ignore it anyway, Apple should build this into OSX. It is of more practical use than any of the quite annoying futzing around that Apple has done in the last 10 years in OSX.
The templates are a bit crude and don't offer all the niceties of full styling etc but they are a starting point.
Probably it would be better to put the time into creating your own better tailored templates, thus also learning a great deal in the process.
They really don't offer much for the design challenged, but they are cheap.
Graphic Node really does quick and dirty templates, if you want a step up in quality and features go for Jumsoft's templates which are actually cheaper.
To think we all thought that Indesign would save us from Quark!
Now Quark looks the trim, fast option and Indesign looks like the grossly overweight nerd in the electric cart.
Indesign is almost as bloated as the price!
Adobe has crusted on feature after half thought through feature and buried it in the graveyard that is the current Indesign UI.
I want just one more feature! A search tool for the UI!
Adobe floated its new pay as you use option at a recent Indesign User Group and it went down like a lead balloon which is when all the other gripes about Indesign rapidly surfaced. I've never seen an Adobe representative backpedal so fast in my life, especially when I suggested they could be doing a Quark.
I am wondering if it is worth upgrading from Toast version to the full version.
Whilst the RE version that comes with Toast works reasonably well, there are quirks. Because the search and find is cumbersome for catalogs of for instance my RIPed DVDs, I make up an indexed list by copying from the DiskCatalogMakerRE list, hopefully as large a range as I can, usually from each archive disk.
Unfortunately it is extremely difficult to select the text. I have tried everything: holding down modifier keys, double or multiple clicking, sliding into each part, clicking on a higher hierarchy then a lower. When I finally succeed I have no idea why. Sometimes it just stubbornly won't let me select the text at all.
I have exported the data as text hoping to clean it up and use that but it doesn't produce a clean tab delimited text file. Volume names run into file and folder names. The only tabs are used to separate the file size data and creator dates.
The developers are uncontactable, the website offers no feedback, forums nor contact emails. This certainly bodes ill for me should I upgrade to the full version and still encounter these problems.
More than a shame really, why would you want to hide from your users and their potentially useful suggestions and bug reports?
I have Ripped a DVD. Handbrake can not see or open the RipIt package containing the VIDEO_TS folder, so I have dragged the VIDEO_TS folder out of the package and Handbrake still can not see it let alone open it.
When you go to RipIt's Help menu it just takes you to a feedback link.
An odd way to assure potential customers that your software works!
Why would you put the extracted RIP in a package in the first place?
I think a modicum of instructions would be a good idea for an app that has such a minimalist UI.
Avoid Clips like the plague, which it strongly resembles. Odd things happened in Finder after I installed it.
I tried it and, after deciding I didn't want it, was unable to get rid of it. It is like a leech except one you can not find and burn off. The only presence is the app icon in Finder which seems to auto launch and thereafter not show up as a running app. You can't trash the app while it is running, it has no uninstall, nor any information on how to do it. You can not Force quit it in Finder because it doesn't show in Force Quit Applications.
I went twice to their site to ask how to unstall it and my postings were simply removed without reply.
Eventually I thought to try Activity Monitor, which found it and quit it so I can trash it. I hope that is the last I see of it. EVER!!! There is another nasty ClipsHelper which I can't find to trash.
Where is that sharpened wooden stake and silver bullet, just in case it comes back?
+2
Sketch
Rubaiyat reviewed on 10 May 2012
Skitch
Rubaiyat reviewed on 10 May 2012
Seems to be the one obvious thing.
Lion Cache Cleaner
Rubaiyat reviewed on 10 May 2012
The first step to using Software is to be able to find it…
…and even better know which version it is.
+1
Mactracker
Rubaiyat reviewed on 24 Apr 2012
Well there isn't one! Thanks to the developers for giving us this one. :)
TuneUp
Rubaiyat reviewed on 21 Apr 2012
I let it have a go at my well organised and annotated CD RIPS and discovered on one CD of Cecilia Bartoli her name was misspelt 3 different ways, composer names are randomly inserted in track names. In some cases composers are in Artist (how obviously wrong) and names are randomly abbreviated, surname first or last.
So far from "tidying up" my collection, it trashed it.
They mean well but it is a case of garbage in, grabage out when they source their information from the repositories.
+4
Default Folder X
Rubaiyat reviewed on 18 Apr 2012
I hate to say this, but Apple will ignore it anyway, Apple should build this into OSX. It is of more practical use than any of the quite annoying futzing around that Apple has done in the last 10 years in OSX.
+3
+129
Qu-s
Rubaiyat reviewed on 10 Apr 2012
Not only is it amazingly useful it is absolutely drop dead gorgeous!!
Capture One Pro
Aperture is obviously the cheapest solution but I am looking at getting the best result in the most efficient manner possible.
+3
Themes for iBooks Author
Rubaiyat reviewed on 14 Mar 2012
Probably it would be better to put the time into creating your own better tailored templates, thus also learning a great deal in the process.
They really don't offer much for the design challenged, but they are cheap.
Graphic Node really does quick and dirty templates, if you want a step up in quality and features go for Jumsoft's templates which are actually cheaper.
+3
Adobe InDesign CS6
Rubaiyat reviewed on 02 Mar 2012
Now Quark looks the trim, fast option and Indesign looks like the grossly overweight nerd in the electric cart.
Indesign is almost as bloated as the price!
Adobe has crusted on feature after half thought through feature and buried it in the graveyard that is the current Indesign UI.
I want just one more feature! A search tool for the UI!
Adobe floated its new pay as you use option at a recent Indesign User Group and it went down like a lead balloon which is when all the other gripes about Indesign rapidly surfaced. I've never seen an Adobe representative backpedal so fast in my life, especially when I suggested they could be doing a Quark.
Swinsian
Tried double clicking on it, nothing seems to happen.
No acknowledgement of registration in software. No Help in Swinsian Help. Website Support FAQ tells me SFA!
Adobe Lightroom
Dabo
AppMaker
Spark
+1
XMind
I own a copy of XMind and just want to get an update and can't get past the log-in.
Frustrated occupant of the real world trying to get into this "Members Only Enclave".
Is XMind "Restricted"?
+3
DiskCatalogMaker
Whilst the RE version that comes with Toast works reasonably well, there are quirks. Because the search and find is cumbersome for catalogs of for instance my RIPed DVDs, I make up an indexed list by copying from the DiskCatalogMakerRE list, hopefully as large a range as I can, usually from each archive disk.
Unfortunately it is extremely difficult to select the text. I have tried everything: holding down modifier keys, double or multiple clicking, sliding into each part, clicking on a higher hierarchy then a lower. When I finally succeed I have no idea why. Sometimes it just stubbornly won't let me select the text at all.
I have exported the data as text hoping to clean it up and use that but it doesn't produce a clean tab delimited text file. Volume names run into file and folder names. The only tabs are used to separate the file size data and creator dates.
The developers are uncontactable, the website offers no feedback, forums nor contact emails. This certainly bodes ill for me should I upgrade to the full version and still encounter these problems.
More than a shame really, why would you want to hide from your users and their potentially useful suggestions and bug reports?
-10
RipIt
When you go to RipIt's Help menu it just takes you to a feedback link.
An odd way to assure potential customers that your software works!
Why would you put the extracted RIP in a package in the first place?
I think a modicum of instructions would be a good idea for an app that has such a minimalist UI.
+4
Clips
I tried it and, after deciding I didn't want it, was unable to get rid of it. It is like a leech except one you can not find and burn off. The only presence is the app icon in Finder which seems to auto launch and thereafter not show up as a running app. You can't trash the app while it is running, it has no uninstall, nor any information on how to do it. You can not Force quit it in Finder because it doesn't show in Force Quit Applications.
I went twice to their site to ask how to unstall it and my postings were simply removed without reply.
Eventually I thought to try Activity Monitor, which found it and quit it so I can trash it. I hope that is the last I see of it. EVER!!! There is another nasty ClipsHelper which I can't find to trash.
Where is that sharpened wooden stake and silver bullet, just in case it comes back?
+1
Clips
How do you uninstall it?