 | Oct 27 2009 |
KOSOVAR1 OK, I didn't realize that you're a "kid" (your term, however you define it). Anyway, let's assume you are a kid who loves writing software and that's all great. Anything that may be amiss might be chalked up to just lack of experience. I'll respectfully decline to buy YouView because the other program is working great and it's free. I do think I made some good points, but I also realize I waste too much time trying to be right. Let's call it a truce, if you're willing, and I hope you'll keep writing great software-- just as long as you' don't do it for Microsoft. Good luck in your business. I'm going to go bake a lousy frozen pizza.
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 | Oct 27 2009 |
MR. GECKO Ok, thanks. I will for sure never move to the dark side as all they do is get their ideas form Apple and make it all look shiny and distracting.
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 | Oct 24 2009 |
KOSOVAR1 AND JUST BECAUSE JEFFREY MCPHEETERS GOT TO VOTE TWICE, SO WILL I. ONE FRIGGIN' STAR!
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| Oct 26 2009 |
MR. GECKO That is just rude, you should not be able to vote because of that.
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| Oct 26 2009 |
KOSOVAR1 Then neither should JEFFREY MCPHEETERS. As for rude, it is worse than rude to manipulate people to make a buck. This ploy is used too often and, when people see this, they react rudely. It's not just about you.
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| Oct 26 2009 |
MR. GECKO I'm not manipulating people, I'm basically saying if you like my product and would like to support me, I'll send them some extra stuff I added onto my product for them to use free. If you looked into my updates on my product, you'll see that downloading and HD was added later on and was not in the first version. And I just looked at my site and it said "Donations are required to get HD and downloading." in the description so your just lying your self about that it's not showing anything on my site about Donations required.
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| Oct 26 2009 |
KOSOVAR1 You wrote: "I'm basically saying if you like my product AND WOULD LIKE TO SUPPORT ME..." Mr. Gecko, thank you, finally, for your honesty and I rest my case. SUPPORTING YOU is not the same as donating to a charity. The only conclusion is that your software is shareware, not freeware, and legally, NOT DONATIONWARE. Respectfully, maybe you should take a course in Business Law 101 and pay attention to the income tax laws of your country.
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| Oct 26 2009 |
MR. GECKO I know I don't know a lot of laws and that's because I'm only a kid who loves programming. If you really want me too, I'll just say it's free and pro version, with you pick your price having a minim of $4.99 and once you pay the $4.99 or more using PayPal's donation feature, since paypal doesn't have choose your price in any other option, then you get a key in your email and you activate pro. Before I do this stuff, I'll have to ask a bunch of friends and see what they say, if they say it's a good idea, it'll take at least 2-3 weeks to make the change and of course you can still "Donate" to get the "Pro" version. My friend of mine would like your aim if you can email me it. If you can't find my email, it's support@mrgeckosmedia.com
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| Oct 27 2009 |
MR. GECKO I am not going to continue to argue with you. I spent days creating the down load. I spent 3 years learning how to convert the videos. It's not right to demand it for nothing. It doesn't matter if you call it a donation or free/pro. It means the same thing and would take too long to change it.
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| Oct 24 2009 |
KOSOVAR1 I ALSO CHECKED OUT THE DEVELOPER'S WEBSITE. NOWHERE DOES IT SAY THERE THAT YOUVIEW COSTS MONEY IF YOU WANT IT TO WORK AS ADVERTISED. YOU DON'T FIND OUT THAT THIS IS ACTUALLY CRIPPLEWARE UNTIL AFTER YOU DOWNLOAD IT AND TRY IT OUT. ALSO, THERE IS A LINK ON THE DEVELOPER'S WEBSITE HOMEPAGE THAT SAYS "DONATE." I GAVE IT ONE STAR BECAUSE IT DOESN'T PERFORM SATISFACTORILY UNDER ANY CATEGORY AS "FREE" PROGRAM IN ITS "FREE" VERSION: IN OTHER WORDS, AS A FREE UTILITY, IT DOES VERY LITTLE (FEATURES); FREE, IT DOESN'T WORK AS ADVERTISED (EASE OF USE); FREE, IT HAS VERY LITTLE WORTH (VALUE); AND FREE, YOU CAN HARDLY CALL IT STABLE IF IT DOESN'T PERFORM AS ADVERTISED (STABILITY).
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| Oct 26 2009 |
MR. GECKO Nobody really visits my site because you normally would find out about it on one of these sites and click download. The people who do visit my site are people who have been using my products for awhile and already knows that it requires a donation to get those features, I say on places like this that I do require a donation but not on my site.
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| Oct 26 2009 |
KOSOVAR1 1.) "nobody visits my website" is about as lame an excuse as I have yet heard. 2.) If this really a donation? PayPal lists your "donation's" purpose as "Mr. Gecko Media." The standard dictionary definition of "donation" is "something that is given to a charity, esp. a sum of money." Is your company a charity? If so, why not state that publicly so we know it's legit? I have no problem with donating. I bought some excellent software last week from a developer who listed it as shareware, but he stated that 100% of proceeds go to feeding street kids in India. I thought that was wonderful and was proud to give something back. 3.) I went back to your website again and, this time, found the words "Donations are required to get HD and downloading." This refers me back to question #2. 4.) The main feature for me with your type of utility is to download video from YouTube, convert it if necessary, and import it into iTunes. If you provide any of those features in your utility and then require people to pay to use it, that utility becomes shareware, not freeware. "Free" does not apply. Maybe you can create two versions a free and a "Pro" version. This will hopefully be taken as helpful advice, not as me being rude.
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| Oct 26 2009 |
MR. GECKO Yes I could of made a free and pro version, but what's the point? I don't want to have to maintain two versions and it gets confusing to people. And of course how could those donationware be a charity? I don't know but they are donations as your giving them money for their good work and by donating to me, your saying you appreciate the hard work I spent of this product and tells me to make new versions. I could just go and make a YouTube Downloader also that costs money as I spent loads of time, but I decided to just add it to this so it's easier on people. Now don't go into the stuff about donationware being the full thing and then you just donate to them to get rid of the annoying dialog, I am not doing that because I don't like annoying customers. I feel as if your spoiled or something because your complaining on something that nobody else complains about because they know it's just stuff I worked harder on. I do have software that I'm not asking for donations for extra features as there are no extra features yet such as Voice Mac, I'm going to add in the ability to actually place the calls and talk using the computer which would require donations.
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| Oct 26 2009 |
KOSOVAR1 You wrote: "Yes I could of made a free and pro version, but what's the point?" The answer is so that people won't be misled by words like "Free" and "Donation." You stated yourself that you didn't want to annoy or confuse people. Generally, it is good practice and legitimate practice to use the proper terminology so that people can make an informed choice when choosing the best software and not wasting time. As to all your other refutations, I hope I've already addressed those elsewhere. Ergo, 1.)YouView is SHAREWARE. 2.) Mr. Gecko software is not a charity organization.
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| Oct 24 2009 |
KOSOVAR1 IT SAYS HERE YOUVIEW IS "FREE," BUT IF YOU WANT THE MOST BASIC AND IMPORTANT FUNCTIONALITY OF A UTILITY LIKE THIS (NAMELY, LIKE DOWNLOADING CLIPS FROM YOU TUBE) THEN YOU HAVE TO PAY FOR IT. I HATE BEING LIED TO JUST SO SOME COMPANY CAN TRICK YOU INTO DOWNLOADING AND TRYING OUT THEIR SOFTWARE! BE UP FRONT AND HONEST,OK!
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| Oct 26 2009 |
MR. GECKO 1 Your not paying me, it's a donation. 2 It's not the most important part to this software, this is meant to be a YouTube browser and player. It's just features that I added extra and worked hard on adding, it took me 7 days to work on the downloading and 1 day to figure out how you get HD and 3 days to figure out how to determine if it's HD or SD. 3 I am not lying, in the description I say perfectly clear that I require a donation for downloading and HD. 4 If this was to have a category it would be Donation ware, but because you still get the BASIC functionality of this product, I say it's not really that.
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| Oct 26 2009 |
KOSOVAR1 "Your not paying me, it's a donation." Ok, then please name your charity, since a donation goes to a charity and not to a individual in exchange for goods or services. When I clicked on the PayPal link, PayPal lists your software company's name under "purpose" of the payment. Respectfully, I will say that if you don't reply with the name of the charity and a statement of "100% proceeds go to ...", one can assume that you are the recipient and YouView is not "donationware." I look forward to your reply and, heck, I might even buy your software if it's for a good caause, even though I just found the freeware program "iTuneGrabber," which does a super job and deserves an excellent review.
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| Oct 26 2009 |
MR. GECKO Read my other post.
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 | Aug 25 2009 |
ROBRECORD "Fixed problem where videos wouldn't play or download" Apparently this wasn't fixed - can't watch anything here.
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| Oct 23 2009 |
MR. GECKO It is fixed now. If you still can't play, I'll look more into it.
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| Mar 7 2009 |
JEFFREY MCPHEETERS Mr. Gecko was able to answer my questions and I am a little more confident than I was that it is safe to use the software. I'm going to continue to use it for the time being and see how it fares, and, hopefully, if I get VideoBox working correctly again or they fix whatever is preventing it from working with WebKit, I can compare the ease of use. Personally, I'd prefer the approach YouView takes. It would be nice if I could have an 'Open In YouView' option in Safari's Develop menu, as some point, or a way to direct youtube URLs to open automatically in YouView. One nice thing I enjoyed in VideoBox was the ability to que up a dozen youtube clips and then download and convert them all at once. So, it may be I'll need both apps and pick the right tool for the particular job. I've also tried yFlicks and it's installed on another computer. It's not as intuitive, but it's more into media management than just transcoding/downloading. For the happy browser, YouView is very handy. For someone needing to download and transcode, it's got real promise, so I'm raising my rating to 3, but it's starting to lean toward a 4 and may eventually get there as it's still being developed, I think.
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| Mar 7 2009 |
MR. GECKO If you wanted YouView to open the YouTube video instead of safari, you could install the plugin which can be installed by the YouView menu in YouVIew. I have one for Firefox/Safari. I'm going to be adding a better system that uses ffmpeg soon! It'll also have a download manager instead of downloading in the same video window.
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| Mar 6 2009 |
JEFFREY MCPHEETERS I just downloaded this today because I was having trouble with VideoBox plug-in for some reason, perhaps since I installed then uninstalled Safari 4 Beta, so I looked around for something that would be handy for viewing and converting youtube videos for use on iTunes to sync with my iPhone and this looked promising. The free version worked fine for viewing so I went online and donated some money for key and received an email response almost immediately. I then was able to watch AND export a youtube clip (didn't try HD, yet) and it worked pretty well, although it doesn't automatically add it to iTunes like VideoBox would have done. My concern at this point is that an hour or two later I received an email from the developer asking if I had 'moved' the app, I guess wondering if I was using multiple copies or had put it on another network, which I hadn't, and a link if I wanted to 're-register' the key and a warning that it can only be re-registered 3 times per year. Thus, my concern is that somehow their spyware-bot is not only sending out information about my location, but is actually not doing it correctly, since the app was in the same place on the same network it had been since I downloaded and tested it shortly before. The gobal IP is the same, although my firewall would likely vary the publicly visible ports and will masq the MAC addresses to protect against intruders. I've emailed my query to the developer but have not heard back, yet. Any other donators having this problem with their key?
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| Mar 7 2009 |
MR. GECKO I helped out and fixed the problem, what happened was someone on windows somehow got the activation link YouView went to to find out if his key is valid and it kept going about 20 times. So each time he clicked the link in his email to enable him to use the key on the new IP, it went again and he got another email from my automated system. I fixed it by adding a filter and now this problem shouldn't proceed.
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| Feb 11 2009 |
MR. GECKO I'm open for ideas ;)
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| May 2 2009 |
ANONYMOUS Better icon now:D
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| Feb 10 2009 |
ST00P!D M0NK3Y Wow this kicks butt... can't wait to see how this program develops.
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| Jan 31 2009 |
CHAS_M I normally have a rule about buying things before they reach 1.0: I don't. However, this thing works as advertised so far, and if a few bucks can get me the HD/high quality (if available) and saving that works, it's worth more than $1.99. Nice work!
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| Jan 31 2009 |
MR. GECKO Thanks, It's only going to get better, and I'm going to make a better way of saving/exporting that uses a manager instead of the same movie window. I'm also going to add better controls and a user system so you could login and view/post comments, and also look at your subscribed items. I've got many other ideas, but I'm accepting more ideas so it won't just be my application, my ideas. But it will be all of ours.
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| Feb 1 2009 |
MR. GECKO Some people releases the beta versions with the version of 0.x, and some do what I do and makes the first release as 0.1 and go up until they get to 1.0. It just depends on the developer I guess.
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| Jan 31 2009 |
MULLIN I tried to open YouView but it didn't work at all. the icon just flashed when i double-clicked it.
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| Jan 31 2009 |
MR. GECKO If you have 10.4, there is one bug I've noticed that cause it to do that, the only way to remove it is to make 2 folders. Make the folder MrGeckosMedia in /Users/YourName/Library/Applications Support/ and inside of MrGeckosMedia, make YouView. or run this in terminal. If you don't know where terminal is, go to spotlight and search for terminal, it should be the first result. mkdir -p ~/Applications\ Support/MrGeckosMedia/YouView/ and hit return
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| Feb 10 2009 |
MR. GECKO I fixed that problem with my newest update 0.2
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