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Grumpytico

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SimpleRSS 1.0.1
(Free)

Growl 1.3.3
(Commercial)

Flux 3.2.61
(Shareware)

Scrutiny 1.3.4
(Shareware)

Mailplane 2.5.5
(Shareware)

MarsEdit 3.4.2
(Shareware)

MacJournal 6.0.2
(Demo)

FinderPop 2.4.1
(Free)

Jumper 2.0.6
(Free)

SizzlingKeys 4.2
(Free)

iDocument 1.6.35
(Shareware)

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FinderPop

Grumpytico rated on 18 Jan 2012
[Version 2.4.1]

VideoDrive

Grumpytico reviewed on 13 Sep 2010

I've reviewed this app in the past and i gave it a high rating. After using for 6 months, I regret buying it. I planned to use it for tagging downloaded TV Shows and movies. For the movies part, it does fill the metadata correctly, but for TV shows, it's quite a mess. I've tried to contact the developer to fix these issues but they remain unresolved. Point in case, the American Dad TV Show, take a look:

http://s3.amazonaws.com/ember/ylwhz6qGrn98cYG84uWl9jj5WC4UYXFd_m.png

So, if you want to automatically tag TV shows, steer clear of this one.

[Version 2.2.02]

TuneUp

Grumpytico reviewed on 31 Jul 2010

So I bought this app in April and I have it 5 starts a little after I bought it. After using it for a while, I've come to the conclusion that this app is not good at all. As many have already mentioned, the interface is not all that great. The start-up time is somewhat annoying, but the fact that I have to sit there for 3 minutes while this app gets its act together so I can drag songs is ridiculous. After the latest updates, which I had no way of opting out, the app crashes way too often. It never docks to iTunes correctly, so if I click iTunes, I have to click TuneUp's dock icon to have it visible.

I wish tagging was the only thing it did, but it has a whole bunch of tabs that automatically switch to something that (at least myself) are in no way interested. It tries to be too much and finishes doing a lousy job at all the roles it tries to take.

The videos of the app will leave you wondering, and the demo will convince you that this app is great, but after having it for some time, I do regret buying it.

[Version 1.6.4]

iChm

Grumpytico reviewed on 19 Jun 2010

I have used it for 1 minute, and in that time, it opened a chm file and converted it to PDF which I will now place on my iPad. Can't ask for much more...seriously. Thanks!!

[Version 1.4.2]

MaxMenus

Grumpytico commented on 05 May 2010

What makes this app stand from ALL the rest is that the menus can be invoked with key combos, so they appear right under your mouse.

Also, this is the only app of this kind that allows "grabs" of items, a feature which at this point causes it to crash.

If they addressed the grab issue, it just might be worth buying.

[Version 1.6]

-1

Speed Download

Grumpytico commented on 01 May 2010

Funny...my review on how SD failed to download a file when time was of the essence was removed (January 17th).

Makes me wonder if it's even worth it commenting on MacUpdate if reviews and comments are going to be removed just like that.

[Version 5.2.16]

Clusters

Grumpytico commented on 02 Apr 2010

Any reason why this won't work on external drives? That would make it perfect.

[Version 1.2.1]

Permute

Grumpytico commented on 01 Apr 2010

It uses about 50% of my cores when converting...meh:

http://img.skitch.com/20100401-rghx3xtkcb9e9igd9fspqjxs9p.jpg

[Version 1.0.1]

TuneUp

Grumpytico reviewed on 28 Mar 2010

I don't understand why this program has 2.5 stars, it is incredibly useful and easy to use. It has fetched everything that I throw to it, even all the Latin/French music I have. It's results are accurate about 98% of the time, beats the crap out of CoverScout and MPFreaker, which I regret buying due to is sluggishness. This is the clear winner.

[Version 1.6.1]

VideoDrive

Grumpytico reviewed on 17 Feb 2010

I wanted to use this to basically tag my TV Show and Movie collection. For this you basically have 3 options:

1- MetaX (free, ugly interface, no updates)
2- iFlicks (pricier than Video Drive, less output options, SLOW)
3- VideoDrive

Like most users, I was a bit skeptic thinking that this won't do what I needed, but the interface is very nice, it integrates extremely well with iTunes, and the conversion speeds are very fast.

My only gripe is that I cannot use the presets of my Turbo.264's encoding settings; thus I end up with large files if I use the built-in AppleTV preset.

It will rename your files to the appropriate names and its search engine is very very smart, gets the right results every tie regardless on how messed up the filename is.

So bottom line, THIS is the one you need for all of your Metadata needs, it writes the info to already converted files in mere seconds.

[Version 1.13.04]

Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection

grumpytico had trouble on 01 Aug 2007

How do I enable this?:

"...Multiple Sessions
Lets you connect to multiple Windows-based computers at the same time..."

I cannot find it anywhere on the program :(

[Version 2.0b1]

1 Reply

+24

grumpytico commented on 01 Aug 2007

Nevermind:

Remote Desktop Connection Client supports multiple simultaneous Remote Desktop Connection sessions. You can save the connection settings for different Windows-based computers to Remote Desktop Connection settings files, and double-click those files to open multiple sessions independent of each other.

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