Karen Hughes
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I am a MacUpdate Desktop user Gender: Female
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MyThoughts
Curlypaws reviewed on 19 Feb 2010
MyThoughts is a Mac program through and through. It combines typical Mac ease of use with a surprising amount of power. While it may not (yet) offer all the bells and whistles it lets you create beautiful mindmaps very quickly. I just love using this program!
The included graphics for your mindmaps are to a very high standard and are really the icing on the cake. You really should take a look at MyThoughts if you are interested in mindmapping.
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JustNotes
Curlypaws reviewed on 09 Jan 2010
The interface can be varied to show your list of notes in a vertical or horizontal format. You can also vary the fonts, while searching is quick and easy. All in all, it allows plenty of customisation. The nicest feature for me is that the interface, while attractive, doesn't get in the way.
The program is continuing to develop and looks set to become even better - with importing of plain text files and Evernote XML files a possible future feature. I really like it. While it is still in beta, I've found it to be very reliable.
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RegExRX
Curlypaws reviewed on 25 Dec 2009
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Machinarium
Curlypaws reviewed on 27 Oct 2009
The hero is a small robot that you control. As you progress you get snatches of the background to the story. You also get to meet a tremendous variety of both cute and less pleasant robots. The controls are easy to get the hang off and there are two levels of clues within the game. There is a single clue, easily available. However, if you are really struck there is a mini version of Scramble that you must make it through to see a walkthrough for the screen. This helps stop you reverting to the walkthrough too quickly!
For the graphics alone, Machinarium is worth the money - but the well-pitched puzzles and cute storyline also really impress. The games plays nicely at full screen, although I've noticed a few graphics glitches at the edges of the screen (they don't affect gameplay).
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ForeverSave
Curlypaws reviewed on 02 Oct 2009
For each program you select, you can set options on how many versions of documents you would like to retain (and since you can be saving every few minutes, it offers a more granular save option than Time Machine). You can control how often saves are performed and whether ForeverSave prompts you for an initial filename if you haven't saved the document at all.
All of this makes it indispensable when you are working on that important document only for the program to crash just before you saved things. If you are running ForeverSave then you'll only have lost a few minutes work - rather than something much worse.
The program offers a very nice interface for setting up the configuration (and editing it) for each program - as well as a visual indication of the versions available for each program. You can exclude certain folders from saving if you need to do so. You have the option of saving and taking a backup version, just saving or just backing up. If you opt for backups you can then browse the versions of the various documents to find the one that you need. The only downside if you select a program like Interface Builder is that a lot of files may share the same name - so you might want to give things sensible names as unfortunately the full path isn't visible. You can always open a copy or the original document or use Quick Look to see what it is.
There is an overall switch to close ForeverSave if you need to (I haven't found any reason to). The icon indicates whether the program is on or off. ForeverSave also comes with a very complete manual. I find it to be ideal for those situations where something happens and I've not saved the document for a long time. It also comes in handy if you save a version of the document and then decide you preferred an earlier version of it. You can go back and retrieve the old version. I'm very impressed with it.
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Phone Amego
Curlypaws reviewed on 05 Sep 2009
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ABBYY FineReader Express
Curlypaws reviewed on 16 Aug 2009
While I was disappointed that it was FineReader Express rather than the full product, I've found the results to be excellent. You can't correct the output within the program, but you can amend its recognition of tables, graphics and text blocks. And, in fact, the output is very good indeed - needing a lot less correction than either OmniPage or ReadIris.
For the price, this is the best Mac OCR package available and, while it means that a full version of FineReader is probably less likely I'd still like to hope that we might one day see it - if only to offer an even greater degree of control over the output from within the program.
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DaisyDisk
Curlypaws reviewed on 17 Mar 2009
However, having found quite a few files and folders that I could discard, I've now bought a license. It makes a rather dull task really rather slick and (surprisingly) fun. It can be tricky when looking at small individual files (as they are very narrow slivers) but then, you aren't going to save a lot of disk space by deleting them!
The one place where it loses out to something like Baseline is in the ability to see how disk usage has differed between two points in time but, that said, this is a very neat utility.
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Highbrow
Curlypaws reviewed on 15 Dec 2008
I can also get Highbrow to check which browser to open a link in.
It may be a niche application, but it works very well. I've found Helium Foot to be fast and friendly too if I've needed to ask any questions.
SugarSync Manager
Curlypaws reviewed on 27 Oct 2008
Taken in combination with the iPhone version, you really do have access to your files from anywhere - without them having to be on your local machine. The other big benefit to SugarSync is that you can tell it the directories to sync - you don't need to move your files into a special “sync directory”.
I use it to sync a limited set of files - I certainly wouldn't look to sync my entire hard disk. Given that you use it to access a limited set of files that will actually be useful from other machines then I can definitely recommend it.