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Cocoanut

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I'm an aging computer geek living in Redmond WA near Microsoft HQ.

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Flip4Mac WMV Player 2.4.1.4
(Free)

Organized 1.11
(Free)

iClipboard 4.0.0
(Demo)

FlexCal 1.16
(Free)

myTaskNotes 1.1.3
(Shareware)

Today 2.9
(Commercial)

SOHO Notes 9.2.3
(Demo)

The Hit List 1.0.6
(Shareware)

BusyCal 1.6.2
(Shareware)

Together 2.5.4
(Shareware)

PassDirector 2.1.6
(Free)

SOHO Notes 9.2.3
(Demo)

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BusyCal

Cocoanut reviewed on 07 Nov 2011

I want to like this program but alarm window bugs and a poor selection of snooze options keep forcing me back to Outlook. It's too bad because the rest of the program is nice, very competently designed and a pleasure to use. I was hoping to at least see a fix for the alarm window bug (where it appears but is NOT the top-most window and the alarm item isn't selected in the list) but the bug is still there. How hard can it be to make a window appear as the top window? Common, fix this.

[Version 1.6.1]

BusyCal

Cocoanut reviewed on 16 Jun 2011

Overall, this is an excellent application for anyone looking for more features over Apple's paltry iCal, yet it does have some serious shortcomings when compared to calendars such as Outlook on either Mac or Windows.

The primary of those, at least for my workflow, is alarms. Alarms are the single element of this application which feel unfinished and buggy. When an alarm triggers the window doesn't actually come into focus but remains a background window. The item triggering the alarm is shown but it also isn't in focus; now forcing two unnecessary mouse clicks simply to respond to the alarm.

If I want to snooze the alarm (which I often do) I'm forced to make several more mouse clicks to manually set a time and date for the snooze, forcing me to think far too much.

What I'd prefer is an exact copy of Outlook's snooze options, which I find to be nearly perfect. I especially love the "end of day" and "tomorrow morning" options but they are all useful.

Another annoying aspect of alarms is if an alarm is associated with a recurring task, all the future tasks show up in the alarm window regardless of their alarm status.

These omissions and bugs make this part of the program feel buggy and are annoying to use.

If you are not concerned with alarms, this program is excellent in virtually every other respect and I highly recommend it. If you live by alarms and snooze, as I do, you will be frustrated by the lack of polish and options.

[Version 1.5.3]

The Hit List

Cocoanut reviewed on 31 May 2011

I've been waiting years for this and I'm pretty excited that development is continuing. It is polished and professional and even the beta has worked exceptionally well for me. I think I can speak for many others that only one question remains, what the hell took so long?

Now for a feature request. Alarms, good alarms with lots of snooze settings like Outlook.

[Version 1.0]

Evernote

Cocoanut reviewed on 26 Apr 2011

Evernote development seems to be going in the opposite direction of what I would like. This update includes "social sharing" as a feature but I don't want or need yet another sharing tool. I'm looking for privacy and security for my notes, neither of which Evernote offers; both by it's nature as a cloud service and the complete lack of password security. Even the ability to password protect the database would be ok for me but I would especially like note level security.

I've got Facebook and many other services for "social sharing" what I want is privacy.

[Version 2.1.0]

Microsoft Office 2011

Cocoanut reviewed on 12 Apr 2011

I was able to download it just fine. The update went well and I'm experimenting with sync services sync. I was *very* pleasantly surprised to discover that calendars (i.e. categories) sync as well if favour of the lame method in Entourage where all content was dumped into an "entourage" calendar.

One annoying thing which wasn't fixed is the "are you sure" dialogue when saving a note you edited and the way all new notes start in a new window instead of inline as I want it.

Speed seems much snappier on loading, email and searching.

Well worth the update but problems remain; many of them.

[Version 14.1]

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Isolator

Cocoanut commented on 11 Feb 2011

I've used Isolator in the past to fill the gap when Menustrip was unavailable but now that Menustrip has been resurrected from the dead it does this and much more and much better. Yes, it's 10 bucks and this is free but I think it's worth it.

[Version 4.76beta]

MenuStrip

Cocoanut reviewed on 07 Feb 2011

I love it and I'm thrilled to have it back. MenuStrip was the first utility I purchased back in the early days of OS X. It worked well until around 10.4 when I sadly had to abandon it.

I can't tell if anything is new, it doesn't seem like there is but that's ok since this utility is probably the best and most useful utility to pass my wireless in 20 years of computing.

At first it seems replicate functions which already exist but it offers options to truly master your UI and workspace to get the most of your computer. I had this installed for only one day and my workflow has already been transformed.

If you buy it, take time to learn all the features and myriad ways you can use it to improve your computing experience. My two favorite features are the auto-hide button it puts in my menubar (essentially returning the "one-app" feature of the first public beta of OS X and the ability to custom script more little buttons in your menubar to do whatever you want from hiding applications, launching them, applescripts, automator actions or anything with just ONE click.

This is an absolutely terrific utility and I'm positively thrilled to have it back!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Version 3.5]

MindNode

Cocoanut reviewed on 07 Feb 2011

Very nice app. Thanks for making it free.

[Version 1.6.1]

Things

Cocoanut commented on 03 Feb 2011

I like Things but I don't use it because the iCal syncing options are very weak compared to The Hit List which lets me choose to sync any Hit List folder with any iCal calendar; that's a really, really nice feature.

In the meantime, the development team at Things seems to be choking on syncing while the rest of the application is being neglected.

It's ironic that when the company had just a two or three developers Things development moved along very fast. Now they have funding, revenue from an existing product, a small army of skilled developers and no significant progress in features for well over a year.

Are they a victim of their own success?

[Version 1.4.4]

Elements CRM

Cocoanut reviewed on 01 Feb 2011

I regret they didn't change their pricing schedule to allow for entry-level users.

[Version 3.0]

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