Well, I'm here to say that after updating to 10.7.3, a-dock still doesn't work. I really hope the developer fixes the program as I'm left with dragthing which is overkill for my needs.
I just downloaded 6.5, which they are calling a beta, and sent them this email that I'm reposting here:
I'm using 6.5 beta. I thought you were going to have file listings with "down" triangles next to folders like in Finder windows, Transmit, Filezilla, etc…? I'm tired of having to double-click to drill down to a folder/file that may be nested 10 folders deep. And no, I don't want to create a 'favorite as folders' that I access because the folders change all the time and are on different servers. Nor do I want to create a virtual folder. Talk about unsecure, tedious, and another waste of programming. What is wrong with you people? You've been promising this functionality, at least to me, since version 5 and we can get it in a free program like Filezilla? Even Transmit has it.
Open up your applications folder. Hit command+2. See the cute little triangles on the left? Is that so hard to duplicate? Geez, if this doesn't come out in the final of 6.5 I'm switching to Transmit or something else. The only thing stopping me is that I can't export my address book (over 25 servers as I'm a web developer) into anything usable in another FTP program. I'm getting carpal tunnel from all the double-clicking just to get to a stupid file or folder that happens to be nested deep in the bowels of a server.
I also can't have different editors for different file types, and there's still no quick look (just a View button, or shift+cmd+L). Why can't it just be as simple as hitting the space bar as in the Finder and Transmit? Sure you have a lot of options, but it's overkill. In all the years I've used CFTP, I never once used virtual folders or favorite folders. You crammed $129 worth of stuff into a program, sell it for $29, and then make it an unpleasant experience that is NOT growing with the times or the Mac OS X.
Also, beta or not, the program crashes at least once a week, usually when I'm doing something mission critical. Why don't you sell a slimmed down version with the stuff people want, an interface that's like the Finder, and then make a version of this and sell it to Windows users.
Sadly, if you have any apps that could open under a PowerPC they will no longer work. I guess this is progress in getting people to buy "new" computers, but it seems a bit heavy-handed. All in all, not a bad upgrade but I wish it didn't rearrange my icons on the desktop alphabetically when it was all complete. Seems to ignore your previous Finder view prefs after it's done, so remember that. Had to turn snap to grid back on (for desktop), set the icon size and grid spacing back to what they were, and put the icons back into how I had them. Also ignores your calibrated display settings, so had to go back and fix that. And Lion won't work with my Apple USB fax modem. :( That's an utter disappointment as I use that all the time to send faxes. Won't rate it as I'm still exploring.
The cost to upgrade InDesign from CS4 is ridiculous. The new features just don't warrant it. InDesign CS5 is quirky at best. I have a top-of-the-line Mac Pro with a kick-ass video card, and the screen redraws are painfully slow. I actually went back to using InDesign CS4 because of this. I'm so tired of Adobe sending products out of the gate not ready just to keep some magical time-line they created at HQ. The new feature set is ridiculously tiny and improved features are barely noticeable. But the worst part: Having to keep Display Performance on the lowest setting just to make the product usable.
Finally you still can't save it to an earlier version of InDesign! This is unacceptable. Not all print shops (in fact, most) can afford to upgrade to CS5. The inability to save it as CS4 or CS3 is utterly unacceptable. Having to export it as an .idml file, re-open it in CS4, export again to a CS3 .idml file is ludicrous. Shame on Adobe for not even allowing users this simple functionality AT THIS PRICE!.
Fabulous! Currently I'm using the web solution Blinksale and have to pay quite a bit extra to send PDF invoices or more than 3 invoices a month. Which I do. It's not a huge amount of money, but the updates are few and far between as is the control.
This web program is what I've been looking for and here's my wishlist to the Developers (if the read these comments).
1. Invoice counter (or something that shows you what your last invoice number was)
2. P.O. Number (this could probably be a custom field) I usually just put 'Verbal'
3. More invoice templates!!!! With thumbnail previews and a easier way to make custom changes, i.e., logo, tax ID# (if necessary), etc... I found it hard to find these and some I still haven't
3. Different templates for Estimates and a way to add large amounts of text that estimates generally have (disclaimers, timelines, rights, etc....)
4. A choice to send invoices as HTML emails, HTML emails with a PDF attached, or just a PDF attached. I sent a test email to my email account and the body of the message was empty. No biggie, but it couldn't hurt to have one's company name in there (if you choose not to do HTML emails).
5. Back to estimate templates: They don't have to be fancy. You can sign up to blinksale for free and see what I mean. It's more of a color scheme changes and fonts that make them different.
6. Ability to send a thank you note after a payment is made (again, using a nice looking HTML email, not a PDF).
7. Ability to send reminders automatically (if you can, I couldn't find it! Sorry!).
My motto is to see what the competition is doing (blinksale), and do it better, faster, and quicker. And I love being able to upload the whole caboodle to my site where I have total control over it. I'm not a PHP programmer hence my harping on the pre-designed templates. Again, nothing fancy.
Otherwise, I think you folks have done an awesome job and since as you say it's still in the oven but ready for use, I'll hold off on rating the software. Right now I'd give it FIVE stars for effort and Four stars for the implementation. Thanks you!
If you're using Suitcase Fusion, and just upgraded to Adobe CS6, you'll note no plugins (don't hold your breath). Add the apps to the list of applications Suitcase should automatically open fonts for in preferences. Only drawback is that it only opens that font face, not the whole font family, which you may or may not care about.
I also don't use the plugins for Photoshop CS5x or Illustrator CS5x as they are extremely buggy. I just add the apps to the preferences and turn off the plugins. ID CS4-5x doesn't seem to have this issue.
How to fix if using 10.7.3: I went into Home > Library (it's Hidden in Lion so you have to use the Go to Folder from the Finder's Go menu and put in ~/Library/). Open Preferences. In the search bar of the window, enter adock, and choose name when it pops up. Delete any files with adock in it in the search results (I had three and one of the files had zero bytes). Empty your trashcan. Start A-Dock and it works again. It even has a trashcan at the bottom of the Dock.
As others have noted, in the preferences, don't turn on 'Show Trashcan on the Desktop' in A-Dock's preferences. Survived a restart as well.
Customized my settings and all is well in the universe. :) Goodbye Dragthing, hello A-Dock!
A-Dock
+24
+1
A-Dock
+3
Captain FTP
Zapp Brannigan reviewed on 03 Sep 2011
I'm using 6.5 beta. I thought you were going to have file listings with "down" triangles next to folders like in Finder windows, Transmit, Filezilla, etc…? I'm tired of having to double-click to drill down to a folder/file that may be nested 10 folders deep. And no, I don't want to create a 'favorite as folders' that I access because the folders change all the time and are on different servers. Nor do I want to create a virtual folder. Talk about unsecure, tedious, and another waste of programming. What is wrong with you people? You've been promising this functionality, at least to me, since version 5 and we can get it in a free program like Filezilla? Even Transmit has it.
Open up your applications folder. Hit command+2. See the cute little triangles on the left? Is that so hard to duplicate? Geez, if this doesn't come out in the final of 6.5 I'm switching to Transmit or something else. The only thing stopping me is that I can't export my address book (over 25 servers as I'm a web developer) into anything usable in another FTP program. I'm getting carpal tunnel from all the double-clicking just to get to a stupid file or folder that happens to be nested deep in the bowels of a server.
I also can't have different editors for different file types, and there's still no quick look (just a View button, or shift+cmd+L). Why can't it just be as simple as hitting the space bar as in the Finder and Transmit? Sure you have a lot of options, but it's overkill. In all the years I've used CFTP, I never once used virtual folders or favorite folders. You crammed $129 worth of stuff into a program, sell it for $29, and then make it an unpleasant experience that is NOT growing with the times or the Mac OS X.
Also, beta or not, the program crashes at least once a week, usually when I'm doing something mission critical. Why don't you sell a slimmed down version with the stuff people want, an interface that's like the Finder, and then make a version of this and sell it to Windows users.
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Apple OS X Lion
24U Appearance OSAX
qBitTorrent
http://sourceforge.net/projects/qbittorrent/files/qbittorrent-mac/qbittorrent-2.6.6/qbittorrent-2.6.6.dmg/download
Took a bit of time to find it on the developer's site, but it's a stable version. They should at least update their listing here at macupdate!
Cache Out X
Zapp Brannigan rated on 03 Dec 2010
[Version 5.0.5]
+1
MacTubes
http://macapps.web.infoseek.co.jp/mactubes/index_en.html
+8
Adobe InDesign CS6
Zapp Brannigan reviewed on 11 Jun 2010
Finally you still can't save it to an earlier version of InDesign! This is unacceptable. Not all print shops (in fact, most) can afford to upgrade to CS5. The inability to save it as CS4 or CS3 is utterly unacceptable. Having to export it as an .idml file, re-open it in CS4, export again to a CS3 .idml file is ludicrous. Shame on Adobe for not even allowing users this simple functionality AT THIS PRICE!.
Simple Invoices
This web program is what I've been looking for and here's my wishlist to the Developers (if the read these comments).
1. Invoice counter (or something that shows you what your last invoice number was)
2. P.O. Number (this could probably be a custom field) I usually just put 'Verbal'
3. More invoice templates!!!! With thumbnail previews and a easier way to make custom changes, i.e., logo, tax ID# (if necessary), etc... I found it hard to find these and some I still haven't
3. Different templates for Estimates and a way to add large amounts of text that estimates generally have (disclaimers, timelines, rights, etc....)
4. A choice to send invoices as HTML emails, HTML emails with a PDF attached, or just a PDF attached. I sent a test email to my email account and the body of the message was empty. No biggie, but it couldn't hurt to have one's company name in there (if you choose not to do HTML emails).
5. Back to estimate templates: They don't have to be fancy. You can sign up to blinksale for free and see what I mean. It's more of a color scheme changes and fonts that make them different.
6. Ability to send a thank you note after a payment is made (again, using a nice looking HTML email, not a PDF).
7. Ability to send reminders automatically (if you can, I couldn't find it! Sorry!).
My motto is to see what the competition is doing (blinksale), and do it better, faster, and quicker. And I love being able to upload the whole caboodle to my site where I have total control over it. I'm not a PHP programmer hence my harping on the pre-designed templates. Again, nothing fancy.
Otherwise, I think you folks have done an awesome job and since as you say it's still in the oven but ready for use, I'll hold off on rating the software. Right now I'd give it FIVE stars for effort and Four stars for the implementation. Thanks you!
Suitcase Fusion 4
I also don't use the plugins for Photoshop CS5x or Illustrator CS5x as they are extremely buggy. I just add the apps to the preferences and turn off the plugins. ID CS4-5x doesn't seem to have this issue.
A-Dock
As others have noted, in the preferences, don't turn on 'Show Trashcan on the Desktop' in A-Dock's preferences. Survived a restart as well.
Customized my settings and all is well in the universe. :) Goodbye Dragthing, hello A-Dock!
Folder Quick Look Plugin