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About C. Spencer
retired Presbyterian minister
Real Name:C. Spencer van Gulick 
Last Login:21 Sep 2009 23:42
Posts:9
Reviews:1
Recent Downloads:
  1. ReelBean
  2. Accordance
  3. Snow Leopard Cache Cleaner
  4. MailRecent Mail Plugin
  5. TypeStyler
  6. Mail Unread Menu
  7. Herald
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TypeStyler
Nov 1 2009

C. SPENCER VAN GULICK  Old-time Typestyler user. Find this new version fraught with former negatives: e.g. ugly, painfully slow. Nevertheless, when it's around, its versatility and production are peerless. I might pay the hefty upgrade price were I confident that my investment wouldn't be useless of OS 10.6.6, for instance, because the program has gone to ground again.

Furthermore, old features are implemented in new ways in this version - as are, I suspect, some new features - but the manual isn't available yet. So Typestyler needs documentation and somehow, after all its lumpy history, an established (better) track record. She's still a beautiful dame, but she's dumped me too often. Time will tell if I'm smitten enough to welcome her back eventually this time - or if, as I can only hope, she's changed...  
(Version 10.6.39)

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Apple HP Printer Drivers
Sep 21 2009

C. SPENCER VAN GULICK  HP Laserjet 2100TN Postscript printer (supported): remains invisible, useless.  
(Version 2.2)

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Apple Mac OS X
Sep 14 2009
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C. SPENCER VAN GULICK  While the new finder, in particular, is finally as snappy as it ought always to have been, I'm sorry I upgraded to Snow Leopard. My office printer, an HP 2100TN LaserJet (PostScript 2, 1200 dpi, built like a brick) for which Snow Leopard drivers were included in 10.6 and again in 10.6.1 (and which Apple insists is a "supported" printer) does not communicate with my iMac without Appletalk - dropped in Snow Leopard - and three hours with two pleasant and earnest Apple experts at tech support could not get it working. So upgrading to Snow Leopard has truncated my office workflow, brought it to a standstill, with neither remedy nor workaround in sight. I still have the original Leopard installed on a second drive, from which Appletalk still successfully marries the 2100 to the computer. But with no printer I can't use Snow Leopard, so the purchase was a waste of money. Somebody was too cavalier about all the unsupported printers on the new system, and the "supported" printers like mine, which don't work either. Please don't install this on your primary drive without some research. The part that works for everybody is faster, but it can bring productivity to a screeching halt.  
(Version 10.6.1)

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Apple Mac OS X
Sep 15 2009

STILL_SPARKLING  Sorry, I think your review is a bit too harsh. You're giving the entire O/S upgrade a low rating just because you can't get your printer to work? I understand your frustration, but everyone knows that HP printer drivers are cr@p -- on both Mac and Windows. If I were relying on an old (but still functional) printer as a necessary part of my workflow, I would not upgrade to a new O/S without personally verifying it works. Even if the test builds of Snow Leo claim compatibility, HP drivers are so notoriously buggy/finicky, you can never trust them for any length of time.

You have my sympathy though. Good thing you made a backup of your Leopard drive.  
(Version 10.6.1)

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Apple Mac OS X
Sep 17 2009

LEV  @ STILL_SPARKLING: It's not that SnoLe doesn't support an old printer. It's that it says it DOES support it. By your argument, we shouldn't trust anything Apple says until we have personally verified it. Which may be a good point... I, too, have had to roll back to Leopard from SnoLe for the same reason. In this case the printer was 8 months old. I'm also not sure, forgive me, that I buy the "everyone knows HP drivers are flaky" argument. Again, it assumes that you need specialist knowledge to do what should be a simple consumer buying choice.

On my experience SnoLe is kind of okay but I'm putting it in a drawer and waiting for 10.6.3, I think.  
(Version 10.6.1)

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Apple Mac OS X
Oct 3 2009

ST00P!D M0NK3Y  My HP Printer wasn't working in Snow Leopard either until the "Apple HP Printer Drivers 2.2" was released in the Software Update. Now my HP printer works perfectly. There was an issue that had not been addressed upon the release of Snow Leopard.

Based on the date of your post, you weren't aware of this update yet...

Get it here ~> http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/28037/apple-hp-printer-drivers (this came out on the 21st)

Try this and see if your printer works, but don't give an entire OS 2 out of 5 stars over something so ridiculous. If anything, this is HP's fault for not having compatible drivers for their printers from the get-go that needed an update to be fixed. If you think 2 out of 5 stars is valid for an error on HP's part, stop making reviews.  
(Version 10.6.1)

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Apple Mac OS X
Oct 4 2009

BIOMAC  I bought this yesterday and installed it. I found the email could not search in entire messages. the printer was not working, which suggested me to contact the manufacturers. several third party softwares asked money for upgrading and previous free ones were not free any more. I did not feel my computer faster. I simply wanted to pay somebody to get rid of this copy from my computer, which drove absolutely crazy. this is the reason I am writing here. hopefully, it is helpful for those people who are hesitating at this moment.   
(Version 10.6.1)

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A-Cownts
Jul 16 2009

C. SPENCER VAN GULICK  Obviously, one person's "dumb-ass" is another person's "cute." Love the product name; although, admittedly, it projects no ego at all. And the new icon (Blue Cow Happy) is exquisite. Perfect! Complements my subscription to Mad Magazine!

Not to mention, just bye-the-bye, that A-Cownts is wacking good at what it does. Hats off, therefore, and thanks to the developer for putting the program out here for some of us to grouse about, maybe, BUT OTHERS TO USE.  
(Version 1.1b)

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GrupaDupa
Jul 14 2009

C. SPENCER VAN GULICK  Love the name of this application and its icon is unadulterated genius: clearly the programmer doesn't take himself, or perhaps his task, too seriously. And GrupaDupa is "a small job, well done." But, hey, if I were hunting a needle in a haystack, would I want somebody to tell me, "Yup, I've searched, and there IS one: its name is Mr. Sharpie. Now see if YOU can find it."? Gee, I might wish he would hold it up afterwards and say, "Here it is!"

Might we see the pathnames, at least?  
(Version 1.0.1)

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GrupaDupa
Oct 5 2009

MLEONTI  GrupaDupa 2 does all that and more for the same price. Enjoy it.  
(Version 2.0)

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AliasHerder
Jun 29 2009

C. SPENCER VAN GULICK  I don't comprehend the usefulness of this application (which remark is aimed at myself, not at the application), but — Wow! — is that an EXQUISITE icon!  
(Version 1.0.1)

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3D Image Commander
Jun 19 2009

C. SPENCER VAN GULICK  This product launches and works on my intel iMac 3.06, except for some lethargy in the sliders. The program is elegant visually and does something I've never seen anything else do, namely, to allow convex-concave warping of file thumbnails while adding effects like shadows and reflections to them. The results are fairly impressive as well. Unfortunately, after creating two file thumbnail images with Image Commander the novelty wore off, and the program doesn't do much else. Which, in the end, makes the name "Image Commander" seem a bit expansive, like the psyche of a young boy who's just received his first kiss.  
(Version 1.05)

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Plexoo
May 26 2009

C. SPENCER VAN GULICK  I really have wanted this to work on my iMac with OS 10.5.7, but I still can't get it to do so. It launches and looks beautiful like all app4mac's software, and the crop and "doodle" functions work fine. But the resizer I can't figure out. When I constrain proportions the original seems to resize to other dimensions than those I've chosen, and if I resize without constraining and "authenticate," the dimensions don't seem to change at all. Of course, it's possible that the saved version would correct noptwithstanding, but I can't tell without buying the software, since a license is needed to save.

Could be me, not the software. Bummer!  
(Version 1.0.1)

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PulpMotion
Mar 5 2007

C. SPENCER VAN GULICK  This is an inventive piece of very useful eye-candy that's getting better all the time. I bought it at regular price the moment I saw it. Don't miss this deal!  
(Version 1.0.5)

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