Stephen Rider
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wKiosk
Strider72 reviewed on 05 Oct 2011
2) Watch as company discontinues your product, declares "Pro" version, renames "Pro" version to non-pro (i.e. exactly what you bought), then says you don't get updates unless you buy it again.
Avoid this company at all costs. I would review the software if it still worked, but I refuse to give them more money to update.
+2
Tagit
Strider72 reviewed on 09 Feb 2011
Think of icons as Superhero symbols. Batman doesn't have "Batman" written across his chest -- he has a bat silhouette in a yellow oval. Green Lantern has the lantern logo. Flash has his lightning bolt. Superman -- okay, he has a big "S", but the design is so distinctive that you could change the letter and it would still be recognized as a variation on his logo. Aquaman, of course, has his... er... oh who cares about Aquaman? (and doesn't that just make the point?)
All that being said, Tagit is a good program. ;-)
Parallels Desktop
Strider72 reviewed on 14 Oct 2010
I'm running Windows 7 on a Mac Mini, and I never got the BSOD on Parallels 5. After upgrading, I got it quite a lot. Tried a lot of things including uninstalling the Parallels Tools from Windows and reinstalling them. Helped a bit, but the crashes keep coming.
The errors I get suggest a driver issue, which IMO is almost certainly a problem with the part of Parallels that passes hardware commands from Windows to the Mac OS.
This is an inexcusable flaw. I should have waited before upgrading I guess.
Freecell
Strider72 reviewed on 20 Aug 2010
I do wish it had one addition though, and that is the ability to size it up some. My mom likes this game a lot, but on her computer it's pretty small and she has a hard time seeing the cards.
It appears that the developer isn't working on this any more, which is unfortunate. So, I'll just sign off by saying Thanks for the game, and Thanks for leaving it available for download. (It doesn't show on the dev's site, but the download link still works.)
OpenOffice.org
Now print: OpenOffice prints the whole long spreadsheet on one page, which is unreadably small. There's no way to tell it to go ahead and fit it to the page width, not height. Huh????
So I try to open the file in Excel again. Now that it has been saved by OpenOffice, it crashes Excel. Just Great. (Yes, I did save it as an Excel file.)
In the past I've tried to use the "Word" part of OO, and have have similar frustrations. IT looks solid until I actually try to do real work with it, and then I end up stumbling over seemingly obvious holes in the software.
*sigh* Maybe by version 4.0 they'll have it worked out.
+1
Backlight
Backlight
Strider72 reviewed on 25 Sep 2009
Interestingly, because BackLight doesn't use the OS's "Screen Effects Engine", it can use older 32 bit screen savers that 10.6 won't run!
That is to say, I can run Marine Aquarium 2 as my desktop, but not as a screensaver. :-p
That really says something about the quality of this app that was last updated in 2003. Great great app, and I hope the original developer is still out there doing amazing things. :-)
-5
Springy
JULY1962: Springy claims that it can split files using a standard format, but when I send split files to somebody else, they can't open them.
DEVELOPER: Springy uses a standard split zip format. It's not my fault that no other Mac app understands this standard format.
JULY1962: If no other Mac app understands it, then it's false advertising to call it a "standard". You're a liar!
DEVELOPER: You're an idiot.
...except in the thread it takes them 50,000 words to say it.
The "idiot" has a point. There ARE ways of splitting files that are more standard on a Mac than the format that (according to the developer himself) **no other Mac app understands**. Waving your arms and yelling "but it's a standard!" doesn't make it so. Clearly the PKzip split format is NOT a standard **on Mac**, or some other Mac app would understand it.
+23
Sorry if I put words in your mouth. I was condensing a whole lot of posts to their essence. Perhaps the line paraphrasing you should have simply read "You're wrong". I don't think you're a liar, but I will stand by the statement that calling something a standard when *no other app* on the platform knows that "standard" is at best a questionable claim. Perhaps all these other apps *should* know PKZip, but they don't. It's not a standard in the Mac world.
That being said, having a PKZip-compatible app on Mac can be handy for people coming from Windows. That, however, is a different discussion altogether.
+5
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