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ScienceGuy

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Remotix 0.9.2
(Free)

PDF Nomad 1.3.1
(Demo)

MacPorts 2.1
(Free)

SAGE 5.0
(Free)

Porticus 1.8.1
(Free)

Gimp 2.8.0
(Free)

yEd 3.9.2
(Free)

Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.235
(Free)

Remote Growl 1.0
(Free)

Little Snitch 2.5.2
(Demo)

Pinta 1.3
(Free)

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Bento

ScienceGuy reviewed on 30 Jan 2012

I just received a free copy from a bundled purchase. Good thing, because this is not worth anywhere near the $49 they are asking. I've used Filemaker extensively in the past and this product just leads to endless frustration. Every time you want to customize something, you're blocked by the assumptions and limitations of Bento. For example:

In general, you have limited to no ability to format the display of a field:
A number field has no way to check to see if the input is out of range:

No way to format the way a date displays.

No numeric formatting. Enter a number as 1E45 and have watching the nonsense that gets displayed.

[Version 4.0.6]

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ScienceGuy replied on 30 Jan 2012

Continuing after the inadvertent cutoff:

Date formats.

Color, shading, the name of the field on the display as opposed to the name of the field in the database.

URl field ask for a label, but are so dumb as not to allow "no label", so you have two labels, the field name and the url label. Dumb.

And it goes on and on.

I tried to build a very simple first time test datase of storing notes with a few simple fields. Yes, you can do it, but you have little choice on how looks or behaves.

This is a database system for people who don't want any choices but very simple ones. For anyone else, it's just not worth the money. Maybe if this was $10, the limitations would be worth it, but not at this price.

PDF Nomad

ScienceGuy reviewed on 19 Jan 2012

Tried it and found it very, very buggy. Crashed several times in a few minutes on pretty innocuous operations on a small PDF. I found the program limited - customization of the toolbar, ability to fill annotations, the inability to add individual pages from an external file without adding the whole file, etc.

I was unimpressed.

[Version 1.1]

Ping Pong

ScienceGuy commented on 03 Apr 2010

Not a bad app, quite useful. However it could be made a bit friendlier: can't type times or number of pings directly in the preferences. Quite a pain when you want to have a ping time of 10 minutes. Also the limits on the ping time (600 seconds) and the number of pings (10) are arbitrary and should be removed.

[Version 1.2.3]

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