WebnoteHappy | May 18 2006 |
FREDB7 Finally a decent bookmark manager, with tags, excellent search, smart folders and a nice UI. + the developer is very friendly and responsive. Bookmarks are quite important in my workflow. Being able to tag them, search them efficiently, put them on delicious to be able to get them from everywhere, etc. with a nice UI is quite important for me. I already had thousands of bookmarks and had an hard time organizing them. And now, with rss, delicious etc. the number is increasing rapidly. Thanks to WNH I can handle them!
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Grammarian Pro X | Apr 5 2006 |
If you mean that I didn't follow the instructions, you're wrong. I spent 12 hours a day in front of macs for the last decade and I know what I'm doing. You write "I've never seen or heard of this happening to ANYONE before.", but taking a look at the other reviews I see someone who had the exact same problem with v 1.5.1: "(...) activating its input method instantly kills every running application, including the Finder, which (due to being auto-relaunched) goes into a loop of launching and being killed endlessly. The Finder can't even stay running long enough to deactivate the input method, so even a forced reboot doesn't break the cycle. Logging in remotely and doing an "rm -rf" on its input method component finally put an end to the chaos." Two people having this problem, it's not an isolated case anymore. You should fix it. About TSM: I understand the only way Apple provide is far from perfect, but I just want a grammar checker, no auto-correct, etc. A simple service, or even better an Input Manager would do the trick for me. 2 users having the same problem on 13 reviews is a bit far from "high marks the app has gotten from so many users".
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Grammarian Pro X | Apr 4 2006 |
FREDB7 Yes that was harsh. Sorry, but i was really pissed. Same reason I didn't contact you, all I wanted was getting rid of Grammarian. I'm usually very gentle with devs, I provide feedbacks, sometimes beta test or even make translations for free. But things like that should not happend. I still don't think using the input menu is a good idea, but I don't care about autocorrect, autotype, etc. I just want a good spell/grammar checker. For french, Antidote is a pleasure to use (and I heard that Prolexis was good too), I'm really puzzled by the lack of a similar apps for english. Sorry again for the harsh review, but please, consider using another way than the input menu hack. I won't recommend Grammarian as it is now.
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ImageWell | Mar 1 2006 |
FREDB7 This is a really useful little gem. You don't have to open the big boy (PS) when you just want to do simple things. Nice. Thanks.
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AquaGrep | Mar 1 2006 |
FREDB7 I totally disagree with Mr anonymous. This is one of the best comment on MU ever. | |
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Grammarian Pro X | Feb 28 2006 |
FREDB7 STAY AWAY FROM THIS. After installation and once Grammarian input Menu was enabled, my mac just went frenzy: the menu bar crashed and restarted, then the Finder crashed and restarted, the menu bar crashed and again... Nothing to do in this endless loop. Restarting didn't fix it. I had to restart on another drive to remove the fscking grammarian.component (in ~/Library/Components/). I am an experienced user and this was not too hard to fix, but as my girlfriend said: "If it happened to me, I won't know what to do except sit and cry" ;). Contact the support when your computer is out is harder... Bugs can happens, I know that. But why using the Input Menu at first? This is not its purpose. The system needs it, so if you apps screws something the all system is down. I'm sure Apple doesn't recommend this at all. I'm sure too that there is a lot of other ways to achieve the same (Contextual Menu, Services, Input Managers, whatever). The strength of OS X is to separate things so what happened to me can't happend. So my only advice is: STAY AWAY FROM THIS. At least until they find a better way the integrate their software with the system. BTW, I never gave the worst rating to any software before. Can someone points me to a decent grammar/spell checker on OS X? I'm used to Antidote Prisme in french and I can't find something as good in english. There sure is more english users so this must exist. There's Grammatica but it's far from Antidote's quality.
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Grammarian Pro X | Apr 4 2006 |
DL This is rather harsh. Pardon me for not seeing this earlier. I've never seen or heard of this happening to ANYONE before. And, I've never received any notification from you about this either. Anyhow, this sounds like a rare Grammarian.component file corruption or file copying issue (permissions?). Write to Apple about another means for text/writing utilities to grab keystrokes. The input menu is the only means that Apple gave developers to do this. I begged Apple engineers at WWDC back in 2000 for a better OSX solution. This is it because of OS security. Don't blame Grammarian for this design issue. Other input menu developers (Typeit4me, etc.) have the same problems.
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Grammarian Pro X | Apr 4 2006 |
FREDB7 Yes that was harsh. Sorry, but i was really pissed. Same reason I didn't contact you, all I wanted was getting rid of Grammarian. I'm usually very gentle with devs, I provide feedbacks, sometimes beta test or even make translations for free. But things like that should not happend. I still don't think using the input menu is a good idea, but I don't care about autocorrect, autotype, etc. I just want a good spell/grammar checker. For french, Antidote is a pleasure to use (and I heard that Prolexis was good too), I'm really puzzled by the lack of a similar apps for english. Sorry again for the harsh review, but please, consider using another way than the input menu hack. I won't recommend Grammarian as it is now.
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Grammarian Pro X | Apr 4 2006 |
DL What's to consider? Fundamentally, no other direct document integration options exist. It's all we've got to work with. The Text Services Manager (Input Menu) integrates text correction utilities into a host application much as Microsoft Word integrates its spelling and grammar checking. Grammarian's universal design concept is to integrate into ALL applications from the menu bar. Therefore, you have a grammar and spelling checker, dictionary, and AutoCorrect in Mellel or Apple's Pages much as you have in Microsoft Word. If you don't like Apple's ancient TSM Input Menu design, write to them: http://www.apple.com/feedback/mac/tm.html
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Grammarian Pro X | Apr 5 2006 |
ROGERTJACKSON I had none of the problems with the product the previous poster experienced. I followed the installation instructions; the developers admit that installing the product could be 'tricky" but I evaluating the application within five minutes. I wouldn't stay way from Grammarian Pro unless you have similar problems. However, based on the high marks the app has gotten from so many users, you have no problems -- provided you follow instructions.
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Grammarian Pro X | Apr 5 2006 |
If you mean that I didn't follow the instructions, you're wrong. I spent 12 hours a day in front of macs for the last decade and I know what I'm doing. You write "I've never seen or heard of this happening to ANYONE before.", but taking a look at the other reviews I see someone who had the exact same problem with v 1.5.1: "(...) activating its input method instantly kills every running application, including the Finder, which (due to being auto-relaunched) goes into a loop of launching and being killed endlessly. The Finder can't even stay running long enough to deactivate the input method, so even a forced reboot doesn't break the cycle. Logging in remotely and doing an "rm -rf" on its input method component finally put an end to the chaos." Two people having this problem, it's not an isolated case anymore. You should fix it. About TSM: I understand the only way Apple provide is far from perfect, but I just want a grammar checker, no auto-correct, etc. A simple service, or even better an Input Manager would do the trick for me. 2 users having the same problem on 13 reviews is a bit far from "high marks the app has gotten from so many users".
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Grammarian Pro X | May 27 2006 |
PEPPER131 I have had problems with Grammarian Pro 1.7 since the last security update. I get the good old spinning beach ball till I force quit the application. Apon quitting [forced] the box reads “grammarian not responding”
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Grammarian Pro X | Sep 21 2006 |
ST00P!D M0NK3Y I'm also getting the spinning beach ball of doom. It loads forever when I have it set to correct text in 'Academic'...it never loads. *sigh*
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Grammarian Pro X | Jan 8 2008 |
AMALGAMATED INC there is something wrong with your system. i've used it on 3 different macs (intel/non intel) in our office, works perfectly on all of them.
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Grammarian Pro X | Jun 18 2008 |
ST00P!D M0NK3Y No, there is nothing wrong with my system, thanks. All the issues that occurred in version 1.7 have been addressed in version 1.8.
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