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Apple iPhone SDK
Jun 17 2009

BURRO  Or to allow keyboard entry -- BlueTooth or docking keyboard entry. I'd rarely carry a laptop again.   
(Version 3.0)

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Apple iPhone SDK
May 8 2009

BURRO  IMO the greatest thing Apple could do for the iPhone -- besides improving reception and enabling BT keyboards -- would be to enable runtimes of the iPhone FileMaker app -- can you imagine all the great productivity apps that the FMP community could come up with if they could sell FMP runtime apps via the iTunes store -- no C/C+/C+++ required...?  
(Version 3.0b5)

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Apple iPhone SDK
Jun 17 2009

ODYSSEUS  I beg to differ. The greatest thing Apple could do for the iPhone would be to sell it unlocked and allow other carriers to sell it.  
(Version 3.0)

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Apple iPhone SDK
Jun 17 2009

BURRO  Or to allow keyboard entry -- BlueTooth or docking keyboard entry. I'd rarely carry a laptop again.   
(Version 3.0)

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FontExplorer X Pro
Sep 14 2008

BURRO  I've just changed over to a new machine. So the path to my fonts has changed -- all those fonts that were not already in my system folder show up as damaged.

Is there anyway I can instruct FontExplorer to alter one path,

e.g.

/Volumes/Name01/Resources/FontExplorer_Font_Sets/

to another,

e.g.

/Name01/Resources/FontExplorer_Font_Sets/

for all fonts?

Thanks!  
(Version 1.2.3)

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Plone
Jun 26 2008
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BURRO  I agree with Shock J.

There are many better content management systems out there.

This one has its strengths as a back-end for a big company, a back-end (e.g. document library) that will never be seen by the public.

It has a huge learning curve and is a bear to customize visually -- almost "fuggehtahboudit!"

And it is *very* hard to find a reliable host who can handle Plone, and Plone's needs for very specific versions of Zope, etc.  
(Version 3.1.2)

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Feeding Frenzy
Jun 23 2008
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BURRO  A really great game.

The #1 drawback -- and it is a huge one -- is that it takes over your whole machine so you cannot pause (e.g. to do work) between levels. If you need to do something else while you are playing, you are forced to exit the game. Since games cannot be saved, you lose all your progress and have to start fresh with a new game the next time.

That's a real fun-killer. :-(

Once they get that taken care of, they'll have a real winner here!!  
(Version 1.0.1)

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iLike Sidebar
Dec 20 2007
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BURRO  I utterly despise social networking sites of almost all kinds -- I don't really care who else is listening to the same artists.

YET I am enjoying this plug-in for the chance to turn on to lesser-known artists I might enjoy.

Many thanks to the developer!  
(Version 1.1)

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PDF2ID
Oct 8 2007
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BURRO  This could be a sweet little tool. I appreciate the effort. It is clear a lot of thoughtful work has gone into it.

That said, I tried it on three one-page PDFs and it failed on each. (iMac, Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.16GHz, 1Gb RAM, OS v10.4.10).

Also, unless I *really* lack imagination about the precision that this kind of tool can accomplish, and its potential applications, I would encourage the authors to look at the idea of an end-product that could be priced in the $10-30 range. Perhaps at that mark, enough units could be sold to get close to the profitability of selling just a few to power users at $250.

L.  
(Version 1.0)

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Med-Center
Jan 31 2007
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BURRO  Interface seems mostly complete and reasonably intuitive. But, oh, the pricing!! On an Intel-based Mac, it would be cheaper to buy the industry-standard Medisoft (Windows only), and a copy of Parallels. Also it is disappointing to see another product of this type with such limited import-export features. Finally, basing it on 4D doesn't really give one a lot of confidence of the product lasting well into the future (even FileMaker would be better in that regard).  
(Version 4.3)

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Interiors
Aug 26 2006

BURRO  I wish I'd seen your offer and saved my money.

You are 100% right about Interiors being next to worthless for what it is billed to do: custom interior design for the CAD novice.

And the custom object design program should be free, and Microspot should host an online object-sharing website. Microspot should be grateful to anyone willing to spend the time and frustration to create more objects to be used in Interiors.

I'd love to see Interiors live up to it's promises. But until then, I'll just go to sleep each night wishing I had my money back.  
(Version 3.6)

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Interiors
Aug 26 2006
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BURRO  Maybe worth $5 as a novelty, but not ready for prime-time as a real design app. Feature are like a 10-year-old program ported hastily into OSX. Incredibly awkward to set up anything from scratch.  
(Version 3.6)

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xCHM
Aug 24 2006

BURRO  Worked beautifully in earlier versions. Arghh! I threw them away on two machines before trying 1.9... which does not work at all, except to open its own splash page.

I've tried it out on a 1.33MhZ G4 iBook, a brand-new Intel iBook, and 2 G4 733MHz towers. Same on each.

Thanks for your continued efforts, Rabbit!  
(Version 1.9)

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Firefox
May 3 2006

BURRO  I don't know if I'll ever be happy with Firefox until using the up/down key takes me to the beginning/end of a text entry box (the same way that works in virtually every Mac app *other* than Firefox.

AND, the one thing that *might* get me into Firefox and out of Safari would be a plug-in with the feature of that much needed Mac OS9 app "NetPrint" -- I held off moving to OSX for two years simply because I made such use of NetPrint in doing research and documenting sources of info from the web.  
(Version 1.5.0.3)

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Apr 5 2006

BURRO  Ah, but when can we boot OSX and WinXP side-by-side, and drag and drop, and copy and paste, between?

Assuming it doesn't take developers away from Apple OS (since Apple users will have access to Win apps), then that is the day I am waiting for.  
(Version 1.0b1)

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Apr 5 2006

JLENNON314  I have to admit, booting both up, and then "fast user switching" between the two would be just wonderful. Apple could do it. As it is, though, it works flawlessly.  
(Version 1.0b1)

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Apr 6 2006

DP-G4-450GUY  Actually, no, they couldn't. You can't boot up two OS's at the same time - Apple could, however, come up with their own EMULATION software, similar to SoftWindows, Virtual PC, etc. - which allows one to launch WIN and drag/drop between OS environments ....  
(Version 1.0b1)

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coconutWiFi
Feb 15 2006
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BURRO  I ***LOVE*** THIS!

A simple little tool that rocks.

As someone who commuted through SF by bus, repeatedly clicking the Airport menu icon, to quickly up-or-down load e-mail or a web-page, this is a real relief! I ended up memorizing most of the good spots, but what a pain!

Now that I am not commuting through WiFi land, I know I'll still use this. Heck, it's fun just to watch! So far, it works great!!! (iBook G4 1.33MHz OS10.4.4)

Thanks, developer(s)!!  
(Version 1.1)

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Service Scrubber
Jan 24 2006

BURRO  Will this help change the e-mail app called upon by the "Mail->Send..." menu items?  
(Version 1.1.2)

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Service Scrubber
Jan 24 2006

PETER MAURER  No. Sorry. Service Scrubber lets you change the structure of your services menu, but you can't change what a given service actually does.

If you want your (non-Mail.app) e-mail client to provide a service for sending e-mails, you'll have to contact the developers of that e-mail client.  
(Version 1.1.2)

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MediaWiki
Jan 19 2006
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BURRO  Oh come on! No one else is reviewing??

It's free! It's amazing! It's fast, stable, incredibly useful, and easy to learn!!

If I could add just 2 features, they would be (1) more of a WYSIWYG editor, and (2) the ability to assign moderators to pages so that edits are held until approved.

(1) would make this tool much easy to use for non-techies -- I've run into this several times... trying to use a wiki for collaborative document development but having to give up because non-techies were too intimidated or found it too difficult.

(2) Would make it a much more useful tool for collaborative document development and in smaller communities where there is are not enough people in the pool to monitor collectively for mistakes, whackos, etc.

But this is still an awesome tool!  
(Version 1.5.6)

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MediaWiki
Apr 5 2006

SJK  Good suggestions.

Re: (1)

Does WikiMedia have any templates that would be helpful for novices? They'd also be useful to help enforce consistent styles.

Re: (2)

Did Wikipedia add some level of moderation to its MediaWiki-based service after the semi-recent editing fiasco?  
(Version 1.6)

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Battle for Wesnoth
Jan 14 2006
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BURRO  Mad props, crazy props to the Wesnoth crew!!! I haven't played this kind of strategy game since the McGraw-Hill bookshelf games once so popular with the West Point crowd, that I played as a teen 25 years ago. But this one sucked me in... wasted probably half my spare time over thast week (yeah, thanks a lot, guys). The two main things I love as a neophyte are (1) that you can get a lot of enjoyment out of the game without becoming a game-geek, by when setting it to "easy," and (2) that there seems to be a reasonable degree of versaility to each scenario -- more than one way to intelligently approach the scenario and more than one set of tactics / strategies for success (though this might be improved in future). I am also impressed the degree of detail underlying game-play.

Wonderfully playable. fun, attractive. Rocks. Save often, in case things don't go your way!  
(Version 1.0.2)

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FileMaker Server
Jan 6 2006
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BURRO  Hangs up every time I try to run it (G4 tower 667MHz, 512Mb RAM, OSX v10.3.9).

Only thing possibly unusual about my set-up is I have a partitioned hard-drive -- databases are not on OSX partition, but all other server files *are*... so I have a hard time seeing that as the trouble.

Hangs while searching for files to replace.  
(Version 8.0v2)

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FileMaker Server
Jan 5 2009

JEFFSTERS  So why would you give it two stars rather than simply making a comment about your experience with a non-standard config? It's people like you that ruin these ratings systems.  
(Version 10)

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16Webcams
Jan 3 2006
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BURRO  A great little thing!! Great idea and beautifully, simply done. Seems stable (OSX 10.4.3, iBook G4 1.33MHz). Love clicking on one cam to get a full-size view! Simple! Easy!

One warning/bug -- one mis-click can erase all 16 addresses! So, keep a list of the cam addresses in a text-file somewhere, so you don't have to go online and find them one-by-one again!

My wish-list: 1. Get rid of the behavior that erases all addresses. :-) and 2. If possible, I'd love to be able to re-size the window -- can widgets be resizeable? 3. Sure, a user-specified number of cams would be great.

But I am not complaining!! This widget is a lovely gift even just as it is! Thanks!!!  
(Version 1.2)

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