Peter Breis
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FontXChange
Rubaiyat reviewed on 09 Feb 2012
It still needs some tools to turn off non-candidate fonts and duplicates.
Also I still need to quit and restart just to clear off finished fonts. Faster than selecting and removing everything from the list. A "Clear" button should do the job.
Otherwise it continues to do a good job of converting to otf and web fonts.
It remains a very useful tool in my arsenal. Not sure I'd pay $99 for a new licence though.
FileMaker Pro
Rubaiyat reviewed on 07 Feb 2012
NO!
Bento
Rubaiyat reviewed on 07 Feb 2012
Oh it doesn't! Couldn't be simpler!
Other than report on quarterly returns, do the people at FileMaker ever talk to the people at Apple?
+2
Yep
Rubaiyat reviewed on 13 Dec 2011
iKey
Rubaiyat reviewed on 09 Dec 2011
How? It has no front end or preference panel anywhere I can find.
And why would you create such a stupid situation?
+1
Mac DVDRipper Pro
Rubaiyat reviewed on 27 Nov 2011
It does an excellent job, RIPing virtually everything even some quite scuffed DVDs.
I then encode the results with Handbrake which also does a very good job. It would be nice to Rip and convert in one go but the 2 stage method means I can feed DVDs to the Mac and batch convert after.
I would like to be able to rename DVDs which have no sensible name but that is all I can think of.
+104
The advantage of separating the RIP and the encoding is that the RIP takes a fixed time, as fast as the DVD reader reads, but setting up, naming and converting to .mp4 files for whatever end use is variable and best done in a queue which can run in a thread/s of its own.
Doing the two separately is a better workflow, especially where you may need multiple versions say for an iPhone/iPod Touch and one for ATV2 or XBMC/Plexor/Boxee on your Mac.
On my iMacs/s I run the RIP and the encoding side by side, which in the long run is much faster.
Adobe Photoshop Elements
Does Photoshop Elements export to cmyk and grey scale?
Google Chrome
Rubaiyat reviewed on 04 Nov 2011
I'm sold. Bye, bye Safari, like iTunes you've become a pig and taking a leaf from Steve Jobs' book on tossing software that stuffs up (Flash) here I am tossing Safari overboard. I'm working on iTunes and some Apple's other cruft.
Boxee Media Manager
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Mac DVDRipper Pro
Haven't used it for ages and did a spotlight search for DVDRipper, surprised it doesn't appear to be on my machine, so I hunt it out and DL and install it again.
It installs as MDRP. Brilliant! Of course when you are more famous and well known than IBM, using acronyms for names is such a clever idea!
Especially when you use the full name everywhere else and never use the acronym. Except on the Mac.
Swinsian
Tried double clicking on it, nothing seems to happen.
No acknowledgement of registration in software. No Help in Swinsian Help. Website Support FAQ tells me SFA!
Adobe Lightroom
Dabo
AppMaker
Spark
+1
XMind
I own a copy of XMind and just want to get an update and can't get past the log-in.
Frustrated occupant of the real world trying to get into this "Members Only Enclave".
Is XMind "Restricted"?
+3
DiskCatalogMaker
Whilst the RE version that comes with Toast works reasonably well, there are quirks. Because the search and find is cumbersome for catalogs of for instance my RIPed DVDs, I make up an indexed list by copying from the DiskCatalogMakerRE list, hopefully as large a range as I can, usually from each archive disk.
Unfortunately it is extremely difficult to select the text. I have tried everything: holding down modifier keys, double or multiple clicking, sliding into each part, clicking on a higher hierarchy then a lower. When I finally succeed I have no idea why. Sometimes it just stubbornly won't let me select the text at all.
I have exported the data as text hoping to clean it up and use that but it doesn't produce a clean tab delimited text file. Volume names run into file and folder names. The only tabs are used to separate the file size data and creator dates.
The developers are uncontactable, the website offers no feedback, forums nor contact emails. This certainly bodes ill for me should I upgrade to the full version and still encounter these problems.
More than a shame really, why would you want to hide from your users and their potentially useful suggestions and bug reports?
-10
RipIt
When you go to RipIt's Help menu it just takes you to a feedback link.
An odd way to assure potential customers that your software works!
Why would you put the extracted RIP in a package in the first place?
I think a modicum of instructions would be a good idea for an app that has such a minimalist UI.
+4
Clips
I tried it and, after deciding I didn't want it, was unable to get rid of it. It is like a leech except one you can not find and burn off. The only presence is the app icon in Finder which seems to auto launch and thereafter not show up as a running app. You can't trash the app while it is running, it has no uninstall, nor any information on how to do it. You can not Force quit it in Finder because it doesn't show in Force Quit Applications.
I went twice to their site to ask how to unstall it and my postings were simply removed without reply.
Eventually I thought to try Activity Monitor, which found it and quit it so I can trash it. I hope that is the last I see of it. EVER!!! There is another nasty ClipsHelper which I can't find to trash.
Where is that sharpened wooden stake and silver bullet, just in case it comes back?
+1
Clips
How do you uninstall it?