Michael R
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Microsoft Office 2011
mika33 reviewed on 09 Feb 2012
MS Word on Mac gets worser with each release..
I am not talking about GUI elements, actually I like the ribons but basic stuff still does not work:
- picture inserting has and is still a try and error excersise, you never know where your graph will finally show up.
- table formatting, column adjustements can still keep you busy for hours despite the "templates".
- Cursors jump around in unpredicted ways, in page view Word is constantly "formatting" and "analyzing" your document (can drive you nuts)
- Inserting a list of figures replaces the regular TOC....
I could go on for ever....
I will consider now installing Parallels and use MS Word for Windows which seems to be better supported.
LibreOffice
mika33 reviewed on 09 Feb 2012
Unfortunately, as with many attempts on OO or Neo before, there is simply no replacement for MS Word on the Mac - full stop. The problem is always not the reading but saving again in an MS format which either does not work at all or gives funny results in your "new" word file.
If you are not forced to work in an MS environement LibreOffice maybe great, as it cannot handle Word files its useless for me.
+9
A SW company ignoring this simple fact is not better than MS. They just want to push users to use "their" standard (open or not does not matter either)
XBMC
I suspect this is a problem on the NAS but I wonder whether other users have similar problems?
BTW: Accessing NAS content via a normal file share is no problem..
-1
Plex
At least this is my observation after a quick test install..??
This might not be a problem for some users, for me its a show stopper.
+1
MacFamilyTree
mika33 reviewed on 07 Nov 2011
- You cannot control the overall color schemes for any graph. Either you like it or edit manually for every box!
- The layout of the person boxes in all graphs waste a ridiculous amount of screen/paper space. For example if you want "profession" added in the output all word larger than ~10 characters are cut-off despite enough empty space to the right side of the box.
- Even in Edit mode no alignment aids, you cannot even resize several boxes at once.
Looks like this SW is getting worser with every update. Only good for people who like the eye candy...
Delibar
mika33 reviewed on 03 Nov 2011
Delibar does its job, searching is fast and effective. However there are some bugs which are somewhat bothering:
- Setting of labels sometimes leads to strange results. Instead of 2 labels "Mac", "OSX" sometimes you get "Mac:OSX" on your account.
- Bookmarks are not updated when the application starts, it only follows it strict update schedule defined in the preferences.
+4
Boxee
mika33 reviewed on 03 Jun 2011
It could deserve an update but the company has its focus now on their hardware...
+4
MacFamilyTree
mika33 reviewed on 31 May 2011
- To print out a family tree as a nicely formatted book!
I wonder what people do once they finished their family database: all on the WeB? Having the perfect A0 poster plotter at home? I guess it is not so uncommon to expect an output nicely distributed over several pages with some SW, not User intelligence how to accomplish this without much effort.
So far all multi-page graphs have to be adjusted manually which can take ages for big families.
So very good job for the input, please do something about the output part!