User "Pirx" Profile
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About Thomas
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Real Name:Thomas Kruemmer
Posts:52
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Last Login:7 Oct 2007 10:02
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User Reviews
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Type: Comments
Date: 6 Apr 2008 00:15
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Splendid tool. Excellent job! |
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Type: Comments
Date: 22 Feb 2008 21:38
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frequency, thats it, in a nutshell. The business conduct of this company is unacceptable. Actually, I am not sure if macupdate would want to burden themselves with this kind of supplier. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 22 Feb 2008 21:35
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The standard way of advertising a version UPGRADE is to send an e-mail to your existing customers, announcing the upgrade and not pushing a veriosn UPGRADE through the previous version's UPDATE channel. I have never experienced this kind of business conduct. It is just unethical, unacceptable and indefensible. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 17 Feb 2008 01:40
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That is an indefensible position you are taking there. You push-in the upgrade through the regular update features, which is and remains unacceptable. I do not wish to use software from your company anymore, therefore no further support of version 4 is required. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 16 Feb 2008 12:21
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I am very surprised. Today Speed Download prompted me to update so I did, and afterwards I found out that my license is no more valid and that they expect me to buy a new full-price license. I have never experienced that before. Usually, a developer would announce that this is a version upgrade which requires buying a new license and ask, if I would want to upgrade. Instead, Yazsoft push this upgrade down your throat and expect you to pay for it. Unacceptable business conduct this is, Speed Download is off my PowerBook tonight. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 6 Jan 2008 01:41
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CTM is Swiss, unrelated to EUR/USD exchange rate. But with crude oil at USD 100/barrel, writing code becomes more expensive, too... |
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Type: Comments
Date: 28 Dec 2007 23:21
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Powermail website is down! Have CTM bit the dust? :-( |
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Type: Hint/Tip
Date: 24 Nov 2007 12:11
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It seems after the PGP Desktop trial period expires, it is supposedly falling back to previous PGP 8.1 freeware functionality. See here for details: http://www.pgp.com/downloads/desktoptrial2.php |
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Type: Hint/Tip
Date: 22 Oct 2007 11:29
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Yes, just as I said, please do try VideoLAN Client (VLC). If VLC can't play it, then there is definitely something wrong with the files. You find VLC here: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/5758/vlc-media-player Please download and install VLC, and try to play your YouTube/Get Tube files with it. |
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Type: Hint/Tip
Date: 22 Oct 2007 09:58
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The movies created are mp4 files. It may be, that whatever software you use to play the movie, you have not got the right decoder. Try VLC VideoLAN Client to watch the mp4 file and see if that works. |
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Type: Review
Date: 22 Oct 2007 09:55
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The video quality is much better than others. Otherwise: Does what it says it would do. The sole and single downside I found: When you feed to the app an URL that does not link to a movie, the app seems to be unable to time-out. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 4 Aug 2007 01:24
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www.leapingbytes.com seems to be down. August 4, 2007, 1:26 a.m. Eastern |
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Type: Comments
Date: 12 Jun 2007 08:06
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CrushFTP and AlmostVPN are both in the hall of fame: access to their sites is blocked from China, the censors probably don't want users in China to have access to these powerful tools. A medal of honour. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 17 Apr 2007 06:20
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I have written to CTM several times during the past year or so, but no response: A major, major shortcoming of PowerMail is the lack of a GNUPG plug-in, like Apple Mail has it. I would expect that to be implemented with no further delay. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 14 Apr 2007 20:56
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It does not show up under iTunes 7.1.1 OS 10.4.9. How come? |
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Type: Comments
Date: 26 Feb 2007 17:13
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I would like file juicer to also extract fonts. |
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Type: Review
Date: 8 Jan 2007 09:57
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Easy to use, highly effective and fast, this certainly is one of the coolest must-have apps for Mac. DropCopy rocks! A bummer, of course that Mac OS 7 and 8 are not supported, but we'll get over it. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 24 Dec 2006 13:24
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If your serial does not work, then re-set the date of your computer to the date of the confirmation e-mail from the developer. After that, your serial may work, and you can set your computers date back to today. That worked for me. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 9 Dec 2006 02:52
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If your serial does not work, then re-set the date of your computer to the date of the confirmation e-mail from the developer. After that, your serial may work, and you can set your computers date back to today. That worked for me. These developers, Chris Long and Kai Cherry, should definitely not abandon their day-time jobs. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 9 Dec 2006 02:15
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3 months of waiting and no reply from support regarding dysfunctional serial at all. MacUpdate should seriously consider to delist the apps of such irresponsible developers. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 5 Dec 2006 10:06
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Having tried a lot of different 'solutions' behind restrictve national firewalls, for me nothing beats the combination of AlmostVPN and secure-tunnel.com |
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Type: Comments
Date: 1 Dec 2006 08:25
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On the website they advertise a price of USD 59.99, but when you go through the purchase process they still try to charge you USD 79.99. Factual on December 1, 2006, several attempts. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 4 Oct 2006 06:16
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I have never worked with a more cumbersome office suite than Lotus Notes. The one positive thing I could find: it is secure. |
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Type: Review
Date: 2 Oct 2006 11:23
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After filling in data I get out of bounds errors and the app is shutting down. In the credit card input the field for the PIN number is missing, and no option to add it. The pro version seems not to be able to import data from the free version. The free version performs better for me, the pro version in its current state is a bit of a disappointment. |
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Type: Troubleshooting
Date: 10 Sep 2006 03:51
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I emailed support twice for problems with their registration number, but they don't bother replying. I can not recommend any software of any developer with such lousy support. As this is totally unacceptable, and just as a matter of principle, I may go legal and sue for damages if there is no reply by September 12, 2006, business closing hours. I have done that before and it was VERY effective. Companies with this lousy attitude do not deserve anybody's business. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 22 Aug 2006 22:46
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The widget itself works great, no problem. Now let us get some things straight: China is a country with a repressive communist government, that suppresses press-freedom and censors the media and the Internet. Journalists are still being imprisoned in China or 'reformed through labour', there are also journalists who are paying with their lives for investigative journalism. Very recently an environmentalist was paralyzed after a vicious attack on him, when he had given an interview to German TV. The official examination concluded that he 'broke his own neck' (quote Shanghai Daily). The headlines in the Shanghai Daily widget will give you represent China's communist party line, and the content is only what was approved by state censors. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 11 May 2006 10:42
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Apple should consider adopting the iridium look. Iridium is the most beautiful theme around, as far as I am concerned. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 11 May 2006 10:32
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I would actually expect Skype to come up with a OS X version equivalent to the 2.0 for Windows. with cam support. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 7 May 2006 11:06
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It does not start under OS 10.4.6, it crashes on starting the app. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 3 May 2006 00:50
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Thank you very, very much, this was extremely helpful. I guess the only way of disabling that, is not to access pages that use Google tracking, right? |
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Type: Comments
Date: 2 May 2006 22:26
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No, that is not what I mean. Whenever I connect to any site, it is clearly visible on the task-bar on the bottom, that Camino connects to Google first. I don't hope, that Camino harvests information for Google? |
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Type: Troubleshooting
Date: 4 Apr 2006 11:26
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Why is it that Camino always connects to www.google-analytics.com? Is there something in the EULA about this, that I should have read? |
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Type: Comments
Date: 2 Apr 2006 12:54
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I have just come from Safari via Firefox via Opera to Camino and must say, that I am really impressed. Excellent browser. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 4 Mar 2006 08:51
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k0t1k: thanks a million! gaoshan: if you have nothing to contribute, then no one would object if you would just remain silent. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 4 Mar 2006 00:13
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http://idisk.mac.com/atchijov/Public/ and all thereafter is blocked, too, by the censors. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 4 Mar 2006 00:09
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To avoid the ridiculous, total waste of time to find daily a working proxy server that has not already been blocked by the censors, it might be much more advantageous to just upload almostVPN to an unconspicuous mirror. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 3 Mar 2006 20:24
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The People's Republic of China has chosen to block all and any access to leapingbytes.com. I would regard that being a medal of honour, if the worlds no.1 paraniod censors are that much scared of leapingbytes.com. But, it also poses a problem to download from leapingbytes.com. Can you put AlmostVPN on a mirror-server somewhere? |
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Type: Comments
Date: 13 Feb 2006 09:05
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VPN and tunneling is also useful, if you are behind the Great Fire-Wall of China, with port blocking, content filtering, etc, etc. |
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Type: Review
Date: 13 Feb 2006 08:58
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Yes, brilliant app. I just love it, the simplicty of configuration together with the fool-proof help makes connecting to a VPN or tunneling a breeze. Minor, minute problem occured: I have experienced repetitive almostVPN freezes followed by crashes on a machine that runs OS X 10.4.3. Somehow related to the menu icon the whole app seems to go down. No such occurrence under OS X 10.4.4. Again, great stuff, we need more of that, for example HTTPort on OSX http://www.htthost.com |
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Type: Review
Date: 6 Feb 2006 13:26
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It installs and runs fine, but I am very concerned: I installed NetBarrier, ran the update, rebooted and confirmed everything runs fine. Then I installed wimp 1.1 http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/20455 wimp calls home, i.e. in a way it behaves like spyware - OK, it is a cron job, but still, I a extremely concerned that NetBarrier did not utter a whimper when wimp called home and sent an e-mail, even. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 11 Jan 2006 01:24
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Most important function: parental controls, disable music store. |
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Type: Review
Date: 10 Jan 2006 02:45
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This is the good old board game Risk or Risiko, with some slight modifications. There are Windows and Palm versions from other developers. This one here is way too easy to play in off-line mode, can not match the Palm game. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 30 Dec 2005 22:32
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I am also disappointed. It seems that the developer tried to do a too good job, and thereby things went wrong. Error messages while downloading software, because stuffit tries to unzip it during the download process, sometimes crashes during normal unzip processes, etc. I would say that less automation is more. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 6 Nov 2005 04:27
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Thank you for this brilliant app. It is a mystery, why Apple tried to re-invent the wheel with the clumsy input interface for the address book. AddressBookQuickEntry brings us back to the roots - very good. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 4 Nov 2005 22:41
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Beautiful, useful, well conceived app, but I wish I had not bought it. Upon entering the registration details Grammarian stops responding and the system locks up. This wasted a lot of my time, including having to write to support and hoping for a workable fix sometime soon. I find it totally unacceptable, that paying customers are being exposed to such an experience. Anything beyond a fast and totally pain-free registration process is unacceptable. Probably there is a line somewhere in the small print of the license agreement, that you can only register this software with a live VPN connection to the Pentagon on Tuesdays after full moon. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 17 Oct 2005 11:01
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Their sales agent PowerMax refused to sell TechTool Pro to me, on the grounds that they 'don't export software'. Looking at the other comments I was may be lucky, and should take my business elserwhere. |
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