teleport | Oct 25 2009 |
SHATFIELD After messing with Synergy on the PC platform, this was like a breath of fresh air, just like working on the MAC platform should be. It was so easy to set up that I had 2 Macs working side by side in less than 20 seconds. Seriously! Very intuitive, very easy, and very well thought out. 5 stars!
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Postbox | Sep 9 2009 |
SHATFIELD $40 for an email client. $40! I used to really like this app, but as soon as I heard that they were going to start charging for it, I switched back to Mail.app. Sorry, it's not worth $40!
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Postbox | Sep 9 2009 |
SHERMAN WILCOX It was absolutely worth $40 to me. Much more powerful, and reliable, than Mail. Great development team that responds fast as lightning to support questions. Incredible search function with tag system, lets me search for and instantly find attachments, links, images I've sent or received from people. Mail is an email application. Postbox is an email management system for power users.
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Postbox | Sep 9 2009 |
JASON EMANUELSON All people want these days is free. Forget that something takes effort, or people want to keep a roof over their heads and food on the table just like you do. I am absolutely amazed just how selfish people have become. How would you feel if something you had spent years on and had bankrolled up front was shot down like you just did? To make it worse, you do so in such a public way. This is so typical of Mac users these days and one of the reasons Mac users get criticized. Whine and complain that the world is not giving you everything you want for free. Software that costs $40 that is integral to most people's lives, and then you have software like Adobe CS, which is on average $1300. How is $40 that expensive for something that helps communication, brings order and in general makes life easier not worth $40? People like this make me ashamed to use a Mac.
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Changes | May 18 2009 |
SHATFIELD No "follow symbolic link" option?! Without that, Changes is completely useless to me.
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ShareTool | Mar 29 2009 |
SHATFIELD I started using ShareTool only 3 days ago, so this isn't a comprehensive review. I have MobileMe, with "Back to my Mac" enabled, running a full Apple network - Airport Extreme, Macs throughout. Only when I am home does it actually work as described by Apple. When I am at my office or in a hotel, I have about a 20% chance of it working. I could not connect to my computers, even though they were listed in the Shared section of the Finder window. Enter ShareTool! This has worked for me 100% of the time. I see the machines in the Shared section, click on them and voila! I get connected. Not only that, but I could access my iTunes library as if it were on my local machine. Brilliant! I did notice that the tab order on some of the windows was not right, but the developer (Yazsoft) responded to me very quickly to let me know that this will be fixed in a future update. Highly recommended, and worth the $30 for 2 machine licenses. Apple can't attain this degree of connectivity at 3 times the cost!
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Postbox | Feb 24 2009 |
SHATFIELD Just to follow up on my initial review: 1) You cannot create a filter and filter by Message Content. This is a huge problem for me. 2) You cannot create a new Contact in the Mac OS X Address Book, it is read only. No problem, I just use Address Book to create contacts. 3) It is not aware of the content of a message like Mail.app is... dates are just more text, and you cannot highlight a date and create an iCal event from it like you can in Mail.app. Not that big of a deal. 4) No Spotlight integration. This isn't much of a problem, you just have to use their built in search mechanism. 5) Safari -> Mail Contents of Page doesn't work, but you can still mail the URL. 6) No support for HTML signatures, just plain text signatures. Not that big of a deal for me. 7) No "top level" Inbox. You have to check your different Inboxes (work, home, project, etc) separately. 8) It will likely be a paid application, where as Mail.app is free. This is what I've found so far. Other than these things, I am pretty happy with it. Most of these problems will be addressed in future releases, according to their forum. Keep up the great work, guys, and good luck! | |
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Postbox | Feb 22 2009 |
SHATFIELD I just set up Postbox with MobileMe and my employer's IMAP server (Exchange 2007). Both worked very well and I did not have a problem setting up the accounts. I was able to access all of my email on those accounts without doing anything special, and what was great was that I immediately had access to all of my Address Book contacts! I could create HTML emails, embed pictures, etc. It even has growl integration! If you would like to use Thunderbird but are turned off by the lack of the Native Address Book integration, then Postbox is your answer, and it is a very nice program as well! Does anyone know if they will charge for Postbox 1.0?
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Postbox | Feb 24 2009 |
SHATFIELD Just to follow up on my initial review: 1) You cannot create a filter and filter by Message Content. This is a huge problem for me. 2) You cannot create a new Contact in the Mac OS X Address Book, it is read only. No problem, I just use Address Book to create contacts. 3) It is not aware of the content of a message like Mail.app is... dates are just more text, and you cannot highlight a date and create an iCal event from it like you can in Mail.app. Not that big of a deal. 4) No Spotlight integration. This isn't much of a problem, you just have to use their built in search mechanism. 5) Safari -> Mail Contents of Page doesn't work, but you can still mail the URL. 6) No support for HTML signatures, just plain text signatures. Not that big of a deal for me. 7) No "top level" Inbox. You have to check your different Inboxes (work, home, project, etc) separately. 8) It will likely be a paid application, where as Mail.app is free. This is what I've found so far. Other than these things, I am pretty happy with it. Most of these problems will be addressed in future releases, according to their forum. Keep up the great work, guys, and good luck! | |
Postbox | Mar 3 2009 |
MKAY 8.) it's actually going to be free: http://www.techcrunch50.com/2008/conference/presenter.php?presenter=75 (around 00:14:50)
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Thunderbird | May 1 2008 |
SHATFIELD Open the address book from Thunderbird and click "New Card". Look at the Internet section of the card... WTF?! Where is the ability to add as many email addresses as I want to a "card"? Additional "screen names"? What a joke.
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Aurora | Feb 6 2008 |
SHATFIELD The US Dollar's exchange rate is why this software is so "expensive"... the developer is charging only 15 EUR... which is $22! At the rate the US economy is tanking, in a year you'll have to sell your car in order to buy it.
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ID3 Editor | Apr 4 2007 |
SHATFIELD Because iTunes sometimes doesn't get it right. I had a CD that was imported using a Linux box some time ago, which I then imported into iTunes when I switched to a Mac. Well, the MP3 files had v1 tags, but the v2 tags were empty. iTunes displayed the tracks correctly in the song browser, but when I played the song, it would add an "_" to the name and strip the tags! ID3 Tag Editor fixed the problem by allowing me to update the v2 tags from the v1 tags.
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1Password | Feb 25 2007 |
SHATFIELD This program started off very good, and is approaching greatness. The developers keep putting out release after release, with better functionality each time. I've never had it crash or do anything "wonky" on any of the pages that I visit, and when I am at a machine that doesn't have it installed, I really miss it. When it provides web server directory authentication (not just web form authentication), it'll be perfect. | |
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| Oct 31 2006 |
SHATFIELD Does anyone have WinXP running with more than 2GB of system RAM, and WinXP can see more than 2GB? | |
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SHATFIELD I have a 4GB Mac Pro running Windows XP using Boot Camp (it's for work, otherwise I'd be in Mac OS X fulltime!). When I'm booted into Windows XP, it can only see 2GB of the RAM. I've searched everywhere, and when I actually find something about this problem, it indicates that it is a problem in Boot Camp. Of course there are conflicting reports that say that Windows XP can't (and some say can) see more than 2GB of RAM. Can anyone corroberate this or debunk this? Is there anything that can be done? | |
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| Oct 31 2006 |
WATCHOUT http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555223 XP is supposed to support up to 4 GB.
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| Oct 31 2006 |
SHATFIELD Does anyone have WinXP running with more than 2GB of system RAM, and WinXP can see more than 2GB? | |
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RICHJN Win XP can see 4GB but this is ALL memory so if your video card is 250MB then you may only see 3.5 GB, however, (I think this is correct) Windows can only assign 2GB per program but is in theory able to do this up to the limit of your actual ram. In Windows Server they used a a technique of allocating memory into 2GB lumps which they caled PAE (physical Address Exstentions) which allows ram configurations in excess of 4GB to be used. To enable you simply place "/PAE in to your boot.ini file. On my Mac Pro with 8GB memory Windows did this for me by default so may have done so on yours as well. To check look under Control Panel > System and just after the bit where it says memory blah it will say Physical Address Exstenstions | |
Cryptoheaven | Jun 6 2006 |
SHATFIELD Now that the NSA is spying on US citizens - not just "some" citizens, but *ALL* citizens - perhaps it's time that we all start looking at CryptoHeaven as a means to protect our privacy? That is, unless the government has some back door into their systems... is that possible?
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Yank | Jan 17 2006 |
SHATFIELD AppZapper only checks /Applications and your ~ (home) directory, and doesn't do anything about apps that install files into odd locations, such as Macromedia and Microsoft Office. From Yanks' website, it appears that Yank monitors apps as you install and run them, and when you remove them it uses this information to remove the files that the app created during installation and runtime.
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Airfoil | Jan 8 2006 |
SHATFIELD I downloaded the program and tried it against 2 airport express units. On my dual 2Ghz G5, it worked flawlessly. The streams started almost immediately and were in sync with each other. I'm not sure how it would work against 3 or more - someone who has that main AE units will have to write a review. As far as features go, I'm giving it a 4 because it doesn't remember my EQ settings between app launches. Keep up the great work, RA!
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