HANDYCAM  Version 5.8 is like Safari with every Safari add-in already in it. I prefer WebKit over Gecko, and OmniWeb offers that plus additional features such as site preferences and workspaces that further enhance browsing.

Oh, and I run 5.8 for hours and the RAM hovers just under 250mb.  
(Version 5.8)

HANDYCAM  Excellent app keeps getting better. i love the pointless comparisons to Photoshop -- this will never be Photoshop. But for the price, it gets a lot of things done you really need to do regularly. And it does it with style. It is also updated regularly, and bugs and gripes are actually fixed.

For a low-cost image editor, it's excellent. Much better than all the competition.  
(Version 1.2.3)

HANDYCAM  Nice. Developer: how about OmniWeb?  
(Version 3.2v56)

HANDYCAM  Version 8 is looking very nice. I use my version 7 literally every day. An excellent application looks to get even better.

Hopefully the 7 to 8 upgrade fee will be small.  
(Version 8.0b1)

HANDYCAM  Stay away from this one.

Development has ceased. No new updates in a year or so. No news. Check out the forums on the web site, filled with irate users.

It doesn't matter what else you choose, but not this app.  
(Version 1.0b7B699)

HANDYCAM  True, the app doesn't seem to launch at login anymore.

But it does work once it's launched, so there is at least a workaround.

I hope this bug is fixed, but it doesn't keep me from enjoying an otherwise excellent app.  
(Version 3.2.1)

HANDYCAM  Does not work with iPod touch. Bummer.  
(Version 1.0.2)

HANDYCAM  Does what it says.

Too bad it only does folders of images, I'd love to be able to drag a group of images (i.e. a subset of a folder) to the app for renaming/processing.

Further, I'd love to see the ability to sort images processed into subfolders by date or other criteria.

But these requests aside, a nice app and the price is right.  
(Version 1.0.1)

HANDYCAM  First of all, it's a bit misleading: this is NOT a "color picker" in the sense that it can be accessed from within applications.

It's an application itself. A slow-to-launch Java application and like most of those has a very un-mac-like UI.

IMO it doesn't really give you anything useful. You can get much more bang for your buck with a true color picker like Painter's Picker, or a standalone app like Art Directors Toolit  
(Version 2.0)

HANDYCAM  I'm not usually someone who gripes about prices, but I have to agree with the other poster here. $45 for something that does only 1 simple thing, slightly more enhanced than the free one? Insane! I'd buy it for $10-15 maybe, for the convenienc4e and to support a mac developer. But for less money I can buy Art Director's Toolkit, which does this AND several more useful things.  
(Version 4.0)

HANDYCAM  Agree with previous poster. Nice, but should be freeware. Or a token amount like $4-5.  
(Version 0.9)

HANDYCAM  I see no way to apply the changes as a super-user.

I tried using this on a folder full of files and folders, and although it gave no error, the contents of the folder were NOT changed.

I went to Terminal and did sudo chmod -R and it worked. Note doing this without sudo gave me a bunch of errors in terminal -- so obviously one needed to be SU to change these files. And as I said, I don't see how to do this in BatChmod  
(Version 1.51)

HANDYCAM  http://sakuro4ka.deviantart.com/art/Fantastic-for-Opera-32346434

I downloaded this theme, but would up only using his toolbar settings file.

They go in ~/Preferences/Opera Beta/Skin and Toolbars  
(Version 9.5b2)

HANDYCAM  Might not look like a mac application, but it looks good, if you use a decent theme. I use Tango CL on both mac and windows and have a clean "platform-agnostic" look on both.

Also, after finding a good toolbars settings file I now have address bar on top, then favorites, then tabs -- like it should be IMHO.

Opera is insanely customixable, so if it doesn't look or act the way you want on first launch, you can probably fix it.

Opera is nice because it includes many of the features of my other browsers, but without add-ons. Ad blocking, site-by-site CSS files (if desired). Shortcut searches. Bookmark nicknames. Fast speed. And best of all (to me) mouse gestures.

I'd suggest trying it, and actually reading the various help files and tips on Opera.com. With a small bit of time invested, it's quite a payoff.  
(Version 9.5b2)

HANDYCAM  An intriguing idea,and I can never have enough page editors; some are good for one type of job and other better for different types. So it's nice to have a choice.

The main problems I have with Flux that prevents me from actually using it are:

1. You need to have a site folder created, it is not possible to do a one-off page (you could, of course, create a site of one page).

2. To try an make edits on a page created elsewhere (e.g. by a different developer using unknown software) this software often gives XHTML errors and either hangs trying to load the page and/or re-writes the HTML. It's never actually worked for me in this case, so I can't vouch for what it does to "correct" the pages -- it has beachballed every time. While perhaps these pages actually DO have incorrect XHTML in places, it does occur often enough that I wish the app could deal better.

I suppose this software could be very interesting to use to create a small site from scratch, using only Flux, in reality most of us web developers need to deal with code of unknown origin, and of varying quality. An app that insists on perfection is posing an obstacle.  
(Version 1.2)

HANDYCAM  An intriguing idea,and I can never have enough page editors; some are good for one type of job and other better for different types. So it's nice to have a choice.

The main problems I have with Flux that prevents me from actually using it are:

1. You need to have a site folder created, it is not possible to do a one-off page (you could, of course, create a site of one page).

2. To try an make edits on a page created elsewhere (e.g. by a different developer using unknown software) this software often gives XHTML errors and either hangs trying to load the page and/or re-writes the HTML. It's never actually worked for me in this case, so I can't vouch for what it does to "correct" the pages -- it has beachballed every time. While perhaps these pages actually DO have incorrect XHTML in places, it does occur often enough that I wish the app could deal better.

I suppose this software could be very interesting to use to create a small site from scratch, using only Flux, in reality most of us web developers need to deal with code of unknown origin, and of varying quality. An app that insists on perfection is posing an obstacle.  
(Version 1.2)

HANDYCAM  I downloaded this with high hopes that it might provide a new angle on masking images.

However, it offers nothing that you can't get in Photoshop or Elements' extract feature. AFAICT you just paint out the mask and/or paint in the stuff to keep. There is a brush for painting the transitional pixels as well.

However, I see no real savings in time not increases in quality over using a real masking program. I could even do a better job in the Gimp, for free, if all it offers is painting on a mask.  
(Version 1.0.2)

HANDYCAM  Why is this "weekly popular" in March 2008?

This is software from last August, and the final Boot Camp has shipped with Leopard. All the betas have expired, AFAIK.  
(Version 1.4b)

HANDYCAM  Just to clarify, for most users this is not an issue. There is nothing special needed on the server. Flex just outputs a SWF and works wherever Flash works.   
(Version 3.0)

HANDYCAM  It only "phones home" to check the serial you entered is legit. Why is that wrong?

If you buy a real serial, then there's no problem -- it checks once and then that's it. You make it sound like spyware.

ImageWell does many things Pictureque does not: extensive scaling and cropping control for one. I have Photoshop and many times all I really need to use for web work is ImageWell. I can't recommend it enough.  
(Version 3.4)

HANDYCAM  Would be nice t use at work, alas we are stuck with Tiger for a while.  
(Version 1.0b1)

HANDYCAM  thanks. the dialog that appears is confusing, though.   
(Version 2.0r2)

HANDYCAM  I love this, better than ever.

But if you add your own filters, in the "Manual" pane, does that turn off the EasyList filters?

The way the dialog currently reads, that's what it seems to do.

I'd like to use EasyList but ADD some of my own. Is that how it works?  
(Version 2.0r2)

HANDYCAM  Works perfectly for me 10.5.1, MacBookPro. i have Inquisitor and SafariStand also.  
(Version 2.0)

HANDYCAM  I agree fully with the previous poster's review.

For an app supposedly designed to allow you to simply mess with your digital photos, its color correction tools are weak.

Yes, there's "auto color" which (as in PS) might work but there's no simple "color balance" dialog to remove a bit of cyan or magenta. The ways color IS handled is difficult and doesn't yield sufficient results.

Since this app is essentially just a UI for Core Image, and CI doesn't have this ability, it's expected.

Buy when you look at the PC world and you can buy PaintShopPro for only a bit more that this app, and it offers dozens of useful tools to fix up bad photos. And PS Elements did as well.

Save your money and wait to the new PS Elements next year.  
(Version 1.0.2)

HANDYCAM  Then don't buy it.

I think it's a plus since you can create a renaming scheme on the fly for one or hundreds of files, including multi-step naming -- all in a few seconds.

Using automator or a shell script, you would need to stop what you're doing and start crafting the renaming sequence.

This is a lot faster and easier, and for this I find it worth my $20.  
(Version 7.9.4.5)

HANDYCAM  Does anyone know if there's a way to sort the sites in the "site alteration" list?  
(Version 3.0L151)

HANDYCAM  I can no longer launch UNO since iTunes was updated to 7.3.2. The installer only works on 7.3.1.

I don't even want to modify iTunes, I just want to install/uninstall UNO.  
(Version 1.5.2)

HANDYCAM  Would be a useful app if it actually worked. I deliberately picked a folder with duplicate images and none were detected. I had to lower the threshold to like 70%, and it then found several "duplicates", but not the real duplicate images. Not sure why it failed, but it did.  
(Version 1.1)

HANDYCAM  Tried it. A very non-intuitive interface. I couldn't really figure out how to compare the 2 dupes to figure which to delete.  
(Version 1.1)

HANDYCAM  OK, you can just go to the Lemkesoft web site and download a version without manuals, 12mb -- not 50mb.

If having the extra languages in the program bothers you, do a "get info" and delete them. Although that only saves you 2mb.

The various read me files only add about 500k or so. Lighten up.  
(Version 5.8)

HANDYCAM  Donloaded it. If this works as advertised, I'll buy it.

So far, nothing on the Mac has been able to do this correctly. ViewIt and GraphicConverter have similarly named features, but don't really work unless the image is identical. I've thrown a folder full of extremely similar images (e.g. multiple portraits of the same person with slighly varying facial expression, and even a couple of duplicates with various crops and image sizes) and have gotten no hits in the other apps.

On the PC, there is Duplicate Image Finder, which works pretty good. But I'm on a mac. I'll try this and report back.  
(Version 1.1)

HANDYCAM  Note this link is to the demo version of InDesign. The updater is apparently only available from within the program.

See http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=2448

For more info  
(Version 3.0.1)