Steve Copley
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Skype
Steve Copley reviewed on 14 Jan 2012
You do realise that you can use Skype to communicate with other people THOUSANDS of miles away... for FREE?!
I wouldn't care if the UI was modelled on a cat's bum... the Skype service is really excellent. I've used it for years to keep in touch with family and friends in the UK, Dubai, Australia and New Zealand with barely a problem. Video and audio is generally excellent. Even my mum was able to install and use it (and she' no It wizard, I can assure you)
If you really hate the new UI just use 2.8. But don't be petty and give what is an excellent application a 0.5 star review just because they've not listened to your complaints - that's just childish.
Did I mention that you can talk and see people across the other side of the world... FOR FREE?! Just stop and think how AMAZING that is! Now ask yourself if living with a slightly fat and ugly UI is something that you might be able to cope with to be able to have this for free... If you honestly can't, then you might want to have a little think about priorities...
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@TGBX This is one of the most uniformed things you've *ever* read on the Internet? It's on a level with OMG-2012-IS-THE-END-OF-THE-WORLD sites and the like? ... Really?!
My original point is that people are rating this poorly, not because the application doesn't work, or even because it's a bit ugly, but because they seem to have some kind of petty axe to grind about Skype and/or Microsoft.
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Earth 3D Lite
Steve Copley reviewed on 13 Nov 2011
This is a really well implemented application. It provides a view of earth smoothly passing by 'below' the viewport of your Mac's display. I can't stop gazing at it.
A couple of little issues...
The earth texture is fairly low resolution, so coastlines, etc. are a bit blurry. (I'd happily pay for a version with higher resolution textures).
The textures are high-mapped (so that mountains, etc. are shown in '3D') but the heights are over-emphasised. The result is the sight of comically huge, pointy mountains passing by. I think this is done to compensate for the low resolution high map. (Once again, for a more detailed height map, and more realistic display of those heights, I'd happily pay)
The paid version offers lots of extra details (famous sights, labels, etc.) but I think the lack of information is what makes this free version all the more charming - just the view of our blue/green planet.
Thanks to the dev. for this.
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(Grrrr... Why can't I edit my comments?!)
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This is the awesome reality: www.vimeo.com/32001208
I *really * want to see this with my own eyes! :-(
Pong Remix
PapiRiver
Kudos to the author of this game for keeping it old skool!
Awesome Hangman
BClock
Steve Copley reviewed on 07 Apr 2010
The fact it's a true menubar widget (so can be place where your normal clock would go) is a bonus, although the installation is a bit fiddly as a result. However the installation instructions are clear enough.
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diskring
I don't think that the similarity of this app to DaisyDisk can be put down to mere 'parallel evolution' - It's pretty much a straight rip-off of the UI.
Maybe I'm doing the developer a dis-service. Maybe the app's design was created without ever seeing DaisyDisk... if so I apologise.
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Machinarium
Steve Copley reviewed on 27 Oct 2009
What to do with my evenings now...?
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MozyHome
Steve Copley reviewed on 21 Oct 2009
Why? It's not the interface / features - I really like how Mozy works and how nicely it fits in with OS X (clean, consistent UI). It's the intermittent connection issues I've had.
As I write I have 2.5GB of updates to upload (some new pics in iPhoto) and Mozy has been attempting to upload them for almost 5 days. It's managed 300MB so far. The log file is full of 'failed to write to output stream' errors.
A live-chat to support resulted in some fiddling with my account (at their end) and uploads beginning - but this only lasted for a short time. A subsequent e-mail has so far not been responded to (3 days). The connection issues are definitely Mozy-related - CrashPlan and SpiderOak are happily using my (slow) Internet connection to upload a bunch of files right now without complaint. Mozy is stuck at 0.0% as always.
When I was having similar issues in the past I was instructed to re-install the client and that it would 're-sync' with the files already uploaded. It didn't and I was faced with waiting 2 weeks whilst all my files uploaded again. Not good.
Frankly, you want any back-up scheme to be reliable and trouble-free. My experience with Mozy has been neither. Time to switch.
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(Remember: I've been waiting for a couple of GBs of files to upload for *days* now)
I just installed the latest version of Mozy (it mentioned something about a fix for timed-out connections - the problem I've recently encountered) and I got the following...
Status: 'Uploading 0/0 files, 0.0% complete' for a few minutes
Then: 'Your files are backed up. 0 files updated during last backup. 1.2GB of storage space used'
1.2GB??? So, Mozy, where are the other 30GB of files that I've already backed up with you?!
Do I need to upload them again? (Ha! At the rate I've experienced over the past week, this'll take about 2 years!) What about the older revisions of the files I had backed up? Gone?! Lost? Copies of deleted files that you supposedly retain for me? Gone?!
Very unhappy about this. The final straw... uninstalling Mozy tomorrow.
BugMirror
Steve Copley reviewed on 24 Nov 2007
It's a bit of a CPU hog, especially at higher detail levels. And it's crashed on me once. Initial release though, so it's forgiven.
This has become my new screensaver-du-jour. It's actually the first screensaver I've ever paid for (I'm still not sure about the logic of paying for an app that doesn't do anything useful, but I like it, so that's enough reason)
Steve