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Born 1962 in Munich, Bavaria. Living and working near Hamburg. Working with Macs since 1988.

Real Name:Harald Gegenfurtner

Last Login:9 Nov 2009 13:13

Posts:10

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All2MP3	Nov 9 2009	HARRY G. Well, at least, All2MP3 supports the conversion from .wma to .mp3, which XLD doesn't. Besides this special use, I also definitely prefer XLD. (Version 2.065)		0
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Adobe Reader	Oct 13 2009	HARRY G. Adobe application are no well-behaved Mac OS X citizens any more. Even the Adobe Reader is a clumsy, memory-consuming dinosaur compared to Apple's Preview. In my opinion, a Mac OS X version of Adobe Reader is completely superfluous. (Version 9.2)		+8
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Adobe Reader

Oct 14 2009

TEORIC Preview has its issues, too, and sometimes disagrees with other viewers such as Adobe Reader and XPDF/Poppler (including derivatives). For instance on my computers, it messes up the fonts of nearly all PDFs generated by MS Word (Windows) – and other viewers do not.

It can therefore be handy to have ‘the standard’ application available (and, yes: I know that PDF is supposed to be viewer independent). Even if we don't take the ‘standard’ issue too seriously, Adobe reader is probably the easiest to install ‘alternative’ PDF viewer for the Mac. So it is far from superfluous.

Still, I agree it would not harm if usability were improved and maccified.
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X Lossless Decoder	Aug 30 2009	HARRY G. YES. Simply the best and most mac-like audio-converter I have tried so far. Excellent work! (Version 20090828)		+8
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RubyCocoa	Jul 20 2009	HARRY G. RubyCocoa had been a good idea at the beginning, but now, the MacRuby project is much more promising: 1. it's not an "expensive" bridge between original Ruby and Cocoa but a re-implementation of Ruby 1.9 on top of the Objective-C 2 runtime; 2. MacRuby objects are native Objective-C objects in disguise, no proxies; 3. the HotCocoa layers provides a much less verbose, much more Ruby-like syntax for Cocoa objects and methods. Of course, MacRuby is now Intel only while RubyCocoa is still usable with PowerPC Macs. But the PPC days are numbered now. MacRuby is the future! (Version 0.13.2.1)		0
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Yasu	Jun 20 2009	HARRY G. For my purposes, this is still the best maintenance utility around: fast, reliable and with a very clean and well-designed user interface. I can only recommend it. (Version 2.6)		0
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mp3Player	Nov 25 2008	HARRY G. In my humble opinion, "religious causes" do not justify poor and ugly application design ... though they may at least help to pray for a better one! :o) (Version 1.5.3)		0
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DjVuLibre	Nov 25 2008	HARRY G. This is by far the best .djvu file renderer I have seen so far. I especially appreciate that is not just a simple reader but also a quite sophisticated converter to .pdf. Great stuff, thanks a lot! (Version 3.5.2.1)		+2
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iExpander	Nov 13 2008	HARRY G. 1. StuffIt Expander is free as well. 2. Zip archives are opened by double-clicking on them. So, why would I want to use this one? (Version 1.0)		+3
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mp3Player	Oct 18 2008	HARRY G. Very ugly and completely superfluous. (Version 1.5.2)		+1
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BBEdit	Aug 28 2008	HARRY G. This is a really excellent review, thanks a lot! TextMate may be the better choice for real Unix geeks ... BBEdit is likely the better choice for experienced Mac users. (Version 9.0)		0
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