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Michael Lambrellis

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OnyX 2.4.4
(Free)

Transmission 2.50b1
(Free)

Get iPlayer Automato... 1.3.7.1
(Free)

QREncoder 1.4
(Free)

100 Rogues 2.9.6
(Commercial)

calibre 0.8.39
(Free)

MacBook Air EFI Firm... 2.3
(Updater)

eBookBinder 1.0.0
(Free)

Gimp 2.6.12
(Free)

Suspicious Package 1.2
(Free)

Pacifist 3.0.1
(Shareware)

Apple Logic Express 9.1.6
(Updater)

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iExplorer

Mikelambrellis commented on 29 Oct 2009

I see that the new version supports AirSharing but I'm not sure how to copy files so that AirSharing can see them? Does somebody know how to do this? Thanks.

[Version 1.182]

Growl

mikelambrellis commented on 30 Jul 2009

The Growl website (http://growl.info) appears to be timing out. Can't download. Are there any mirrors?

[Version 1.1.6]

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+18

mikelambrellis replied on 30 Jul 2009

I was able to download it from CNet:
http://download.cnet.com/Growl/3000-18487_4-11090698.html
The Growl.info site is still timing out.

CoRD

mikelambrellis reviewed on 01 Jul 2009

Having tried Microsoft's own appalling rdp client as well as the MacPorts rdesktop client, I can only say that CoRD is excellent.

It has a VERY Mac-like interface and I like the scaling of the windowed display to fit my laptop's screen.

Congratulations to the developer.

My only request would be to add the ability to run specific applications/shells.

[Version 0.5b2]

Skim

mikelambrellis reviewed on 02 Nov 2008

This is an absolutely AWESOME program. It has literally gotten me through my Masters degree. The ability to annotate PDFs is just excellent.
You can add "sticky notes", use a highlighter, circle, box, underline - it is just fantastic.

I am giving it 5 stars overall, however I would like to respectfully request the following two features:

1. Is there some way to save the setting changes that I make? I like to turn off PDF Display|Continuous, and PDF Display|Page Break. I also like to set Zoom to Fit. However I find that I have to do this for every single PDF I read. Is there someway to make the settings changes "sticky"? The lack of this is holding me back from giving it 5 stars for "Ease of Use".

2. This is really a wish. I understand that this would be quite difficult. What I would like is a way to select a "block" of text so that I could select parts of a single column from a PDF page that is displaying multi-column text. Currently, Skim (and every other PDF viewer I've tried) selects whole lines when in text mode, and this is useless when the PDF has multi-column text.

However, these are very minor quibbles. I salute the developer. Thank you very much for a great product.

[Version 1.1.13]

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+18

mikelambrellis commented on 02 Nov 2008

I just figured out how to do what I wanted in point 1 above. Open ~/Library/Preferences/net.sourceforge.skim-app.skim.plist in Property List Editor. Expand the Root node. Expand the SKDefaultPDFDisplaySettings node. Set autoScales to Yes (this achieves the automatic fitting to display). Set displayMode to 0 (this turns off Continuous display). Set displayPageBreaks to No.
Given that I have another year to go of study, this has just saved me several hundred mouseclicks.

It would still be nice if the app would remember its settings without having to edit the property list :-)

+18

mikelambrellis replied on 04 Nov 2008

Doh! :-)

Sorry for that. I honestly hadn't noticed about the save as default view. I also didn't know about the "option" select. Is that true for all apps? Cool.

Anyway, that eliminates the only objection I had. The app is now officially perfect. Well done!

Microsoft Office 2008

mikelambrellis had trouble on 20 Jul 2009

Aargh! Does anybody know how to uninstall this update? My eternal thanks to you if you share your wisdom.

[Version 12.2]

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+18

mikelambrellis commented on 20 Jul 2009

I couldn't start any of my MS apps. Something about the serial number. I've got the Home-Student edition. I may have recycled the same number across mine and the kids Macs.

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