Globe-Trotter
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CrashPlan
Globe-Trotter rated on 21 Oct 2011
[Version 3.0.3]
1Password
Globe-Trotter reviewed on 17 Sep 2011
Too bad I did not buy it earlier this week. I'll have to spend 5 bucks more (maybe even more if I wait even longer...).
Videotron Internet Usage Monitor
Globe-Trotter rated on 29 May 2011
[Version 1.3.3]
Videotron Internet Usage Monitor
Globe-Trotter rated on 27 May 2011
[Version 1.3.1]
Videotron Internet Usage Monitor
Globe-Trotter rated on 27 May 2011
[Version 1.3.0]
Videotron Internet Usage Monitor
Globe-Trotter reviewed on 27 May 2011
He's also very quick to update the widget when Vidéotron changes the different plan features or when they modify the consumption retrieval user id system without prior notice to customers (like they did this week scapping the previous 'vl...' user id to a new user key).
+7
+7
Real Aquarium HD
Globe-Trotter reviewed on 21 May 2011
However, once installed, this app takes a huge 2,26 GB of space! Twice the size of the full edition of Microsoft Office for Mac 2011, more than 3 times Apple's iWork '09 and much more than the 5 Apple iLife apps combined! Just to watch some sea creatures on a kind of electronic new age music...
Also, there is no mention of the source of the undersea clips or who are the composers of the music (and if you look in the app package content, you'll discover some music tracks from the well-known commercial video game 'World of Goo' - in there you'll also find a couple of tracks from the Razordoll album 'Dysnomia', an obscure Hungarian rock band).
Are the video clips and music tracks in the public domain? Or was the music composed and the clips shot by John H. Meyer himself, the 16 years old developer of Real Aquarium HD? I simply wonder because the 'Animal info' that explains the species has been cut and pasted directly from Wikipedia...
+7
0.5 stars because I found absolutely no interesting or practical use for this app. No way to use any other app at the same time because it grabs the full screen display (OK: I understand that this app is designed like the 90's flying toasters PC screensaver: just to gaze at it...). The logout control is not practical and not explained (you have to try things intuitively to stop the app). The videos take a lot of CPU (and I have the latest 2011 Intel i7 MacBook Pro, very fast) and most of them are not HD as advertised. So, I trashed the so-called 'Real' aquarium...
One more thing... the price of this app changes back and forth continuously from anything from free to 9,99 $ and any price in-between depending when you check it on the Mac App Store. A puzzling commercial strategy... At the time I'm writing this, the new v.1.2 is 'on sale' at 1,99 for one... hour! Tonight, it might be at 9,99 again and in two days at 4,99. Very puzzling commercial strategy.
iTrash
Globe-Trotter rated on 19 May 2011
[Version 1.4.9]
Flux
Globe-Trotter rated on 15 May 2011
[Version 13.0]
+2
Skype
+1
+7
xScan
(MacBook Pro 1.83 GHz Intel Core Duo 1.5 Go RAM - Leopard 10.5.1 - French)
+7
Technical support at app4mac was quick to reply to my inquiry (and in my language: French!).