User "WCityMike" Profile
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About Mike
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Real Name:Mike Harris
Posts:48
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Last Login:16 May 2008 11:01
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User Reviews
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Type: Comments
Date: 16 May 2008 11:06
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There was a freeware app which did this in the same way, called iTunesRating, but it was never updated for Macintel and was a real memory hog. Great to see this! |
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Type: Comments
Date: 24 Apr 2008 16:48
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Okay, now that we know it's possible, someone needs to figure out what this app does and post it as a hint somewhere. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 21 Apr 2008 11:51
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I'm so glad this app exists, but I must admit, iTunesRating had an interface which was **slightly** more convenient -- clicking on the menu bar icon gave you a choice of menu items: * ** *** **** ***** This was more convenient because it was a one-click affair. Click the icon, drag down to select the menu item, let go, and you're good. This app essentially requires two clicks. Trust me, I'm grateful! Just saying this is one point where it could be touched up a little bit. |
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Type: Troubleshooting
Date: 17 Apr 2008 22:59
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Yup. Same kernel panics here. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 3 Apr 2008 21:35
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Try disabling drag-and-drop within your Netflix account. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 26 Jan 2008 13:33
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The new icon is *horrid* and very non-functional. It was easy to tell at a quick glance whether your Mac was sleeping before. Now, you have to squint and try to figure out if the cup's full or not. Bad, bad, bad, bad, bad! |
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Type: Troubleshooting
Date: 15 Jan 2008 23:25
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Doesn't build on Leopard: ld: library not found for -lcrt1.10.5.o |
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Type: Comments
Date: 10 Dec 2007 15:13
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Just got Life Balance spam in my inbox which contains a claim that blows me away: "The releases on Windows and Palm are free updates, the Mac release is a paid upgrade. [...] Give yourself a prezzie that will support everything else you need to get done during this busy holiday season. "Upgrade now to version 4 from version 3.x for Mac for a limited time for just $52.95." First, they have the chutzpah to bill a point upgrade as number jump ... and then they're trying to charge $53 for it?!?! Llamagraphics is getting more and more and more laughable. I mean, WOW. I've gotten ticked off at developers before, but I've never seen a company shoot itself in the foot THIS well. Bye-bye, Llamagraphics! |
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Type: Comments
Date: 30 Nov 2007 19:56
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Zarvox already exists -- he's an Apple voice. Plus, I'd not be surprised if Zarvox is trademarked by Apple. Gotta love the flood of crap apps put up on MacUpdate by this developer. Clue: RealBASIC does not a software developer make. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 27 Nov 2007 17:47
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I don't mind the inherent concept of supporting Panic; they are good Mac developers, and Transmit is still a valued part of my app stable. However, this pricing was a major mistake I'll not support with my dollars. The "upgrade" price is a mere $5 off the cost of it new, and is double the cost of buying CandyBar 2 new. I frankly predict that Panic has just lost a large portion of its CandyBar subscribers. I really have no use for Pixadex. If its integration is the cause for the skyrocketing price, it was a poor move by Panic. Mac developers earn our goodwill by good products, but they can just as easily lose our goodwill via stunts like this. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 21 Nov 2007 13:23
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A long time ago, I bought Life Balance. As the commenter below me said, after an incredibly long amount of development time, they have now rolled out a point upgrade and billed it as an integer upgrade -- the "improved" feature set should make this 3.3 or 3.5, not 4.0. The sad fact is that Llamagraphics appears to be a company that thinks an absolutely glacial, plodding development cycle is sufficient enough to keep them competitive in the virtually EXPLODING world of webapps and apps that manage to-dos. If you don't even try, you might as well give up and go home. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 10 Nov 2007 19:35
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Your entire anecdote kind of shows a big weakness in the whole system, doesn't it? |
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Type: Comments
Date: 4 Nov 2007 13:48
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I'm pretty sure Leopard now does this natively. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 28 Oct 2007 01:01
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It appears that v2.2.2 is not compatible with Leopard. I hope the developer will release a compatible version shortly. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 27 Oct 2007 23:52
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Mozilla's Webrunner -- free. Various WebKit-based solo browsers for Gmail, etc. locatable on the Web -- free. But there are fellow Mac users who unfortunately will pay this shyster $20. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 24 Oct 2007 11:20
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I'd love to use Transmission -- it seems the most "together" of the clients. However, after using it for a bit, I noticed that most torrent providers blocked the app due to some "impolite" behavior by the program. Has that been rectified? It's the application's only fatal liability ... but it _is_ fatal 'til fixed. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 26 Sep 2007 11:38
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Ah, thanks; read your response too quickly, and missed that. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 26 Sep 2007 11:33
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Thanks for your response. Would you be the recipient of an e-mail sent to macupdate@macupdate.com? If so, I did send messages there ... I'm not sure why you wouldn't have received them. I've tried it with a Windows OS and Firefox and MSIE, and with a Mac OS and Safari and Firefox -- none of the four combinations work. I'm fairly sure it's broken. Any idea who I might get in touch with to debug the situation? Your help -- even if it's just getting me in touch with the right person -- would be appreciated. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 26 Sep 2007 11:09
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Probably because the King James Version is in the public domain -- thus no license needs to be paid. Most other recent translations are under copyright. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 26 Sep 2007 11:08
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Ah, heck, I thought this was going to show up as a reply to the MacUpdate Admin's comment in the other thread. Durn it. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 26 Sep 2007 11:07
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Glad you liked the comment. :) While I have you in this thread, I was wondering ... I've shot you quite a few e-mails at macupdate@macupdate.com about a bug on the profile page, but never heard back. There seems to be no way to effectively upload a picture to your profile. You can use 'Browse' to select a file to upload, but if you hit 'Save Changes,' it does not appear to upload the file. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 26 Sep 2007 10:47
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"Instead of simply being a recording of someone reading the Bible, theWord uses Apple's powerful voice synthesis to 'read' the Bible to you." NOT a selling point. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 23 Sep 2007 14:15
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I appreciate your kind offer, but I'm good. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 21 Sep 2007 16:55
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"My Struggle" (Hitler's biography) v. "My Head" (program name). I think people should boycott pedometers, because they have the same first few letters as pedophiles. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 21 Sep 2007 11:25
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SMARTReporter: free, MacUpdate profile not full of complaints. SMART Utility: $20, MacUpdate profile *is* full of complaints. Wonder which way I'll be going. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 9 Sep 2007 18:27
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From http://www.tivolovers.com/2007/08/10/schedules-direct-announces-pricing/: "Schedules Direct has to pay TMS [Tribune Media Services] for the data, so they’re not going to provide it free." "Schedules Direct is incorporated as a non-profit group and they plan to apply for federal 501(c)(3) tax exempt status. This is a community based effort designed to fill the hole left by Z2L and to keep MythTV, GB-PVR, and other systems working." "As I posted before, this is their board: Isaac Richards, Chairman (MythTV) Robert Eden (XMLTV) Daniel Kristjansson (MythTV) Kevin Odorczyk (MacProgGuide) Chris Petersen (Mythtv)" I think the reason they don't go with the freebie XML stuff is because it doesn't have the data people call upon for these gadgets. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 5 Sep 2007 13:15
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I'm not sure I understand the business model of a $9 Shareware product exclusive to a discontinued Apple application suite. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 25 Feb 2007 17:29
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Fire is officially dead (I'm not on the team, just reposting it here): "We are saddened to announce that there will be no future versions of Fire. There are several reasons for this end, but the most notable is the loss of developers. Fire's development had dwindled to few developers who do not wish to continue the project alone. In addition, another major contributing factor is the fact that all but one of Fire's IM libraries is no longer in active development. "The good news is that two of Fire's developers have joined the Adium team and have written a transition path. Adium 1.0, upon first launch, will import your Fire accounts, away messages, groups, buddies, and logs into Adium. For future updates and IM needs, we suggest that you look at Adium. |
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Type: Troubleshooting
Date: 26 Jan 2007 15:23
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Are the people at Logitech so very clueless about Macintosh computers that they'd install Unsanity's Application Enhancer without so much as a 'by your leave'? I kept wondering why iTunes was crashing, Path Finder was crashing, Firefox was crashing. I was thinking such a widespread and random problem meant a hardware problem. Imagine my fury when I examined an error report and found com.unsanity.ape as one of the threads running at crash. Thanks, Logitech, for making me live with three or four weeks worth of random application crashes. And actual thanks to those here who spoke of Steermouse as a pleasant replacement; so far today I'm quite pleased with it. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 7 Jan 2007 12:00
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At both 3:45 am and 6:45 am, this program woke my computer out of a sound sleep -- and me out of a sound sleep -- to ring the 45-past-the-hour chime. Guess what got tossed in my Mac's trashcan this morning? Just guess. Come on. Bet you only need one. |
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Type: Troubleshooting
Date: 15 Nov 2006 16:08
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Will this show individual letters, as opposed to just key combinations? For example, were I to type the letters W-H-A-T-D-O-Y-O-U-M-E-A-N-1-2-0-0-0-0-D-I-A-R-I-E-S -A-R-E-G-O-N-E-B-E-C-A-U-S-E-Y-O-U-D-O-N-T-K-E-E-P -B-A-C-K-U-P-S", would the individual letters display on the screen as they were typed? |
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Type: Comments
Date: 9 Nov 2006 20:03
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Wow! What an amazing upgrade! A restored 30-day expiration dialog and updated documentation! (I'm not kidding. That's the extent of the upgrade.) |
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Type: Comments
Date: 23 Sep 2006 15:50
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Hm. Four dollars for something Apple builds into the system. (System Profiler, click on "Applications" item beneath "System," look at the 'Kind' column.) Greedy a bit, are we? |
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Type: Comments
Date: 17 Sep 2006 13:41
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Computer bogged down; logged onto Activity Monitor. ACPDaemon -- Alarm Clock Pro's background daemon process -- was 1.02 gig of physical memory and growing. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 18 Jul 2006 21:03
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Hmm. Stuffit Expander: free. BOMArchiveHelper: built-in. Compress: free. $20 to Pizza Hut or to buy free functionality. Wonder which way I'm gonna go. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 9 Jul 2006 18:24
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The app is temporarily available due to a lawsuit from The Tetris Company. If anyone knows a good lawyer who'd be willing to take the case for the hell of it, e-mail the developer at chris.wells@gmail.com. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 7 Jul 2006 16:14
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Life Balance appears to be pretty much in a case of feature- and code-freeze, and there doesn't appear to be any interest in rolling out any substantial overhaul or new features in the application. An especially amazing attitude on the part of its developers given the recent focus in the world of power users over productivity and other such things. Nowadays, pretty much a non-starter -- not even worth your time. And this is from someone who, long ago, registered the durn thing. (Oh, llamas -- PLEASE prove me wrong.) |
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Type: Comments
Date: 1 Jul 2006 15:35
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As someone elsewhere said, you have to love an application that is designed to improve your concentration on applications that gives you a pop-up reminder every five minutes. ;-) |
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Type: Comments
Date: 23 May 2006 19:52
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A great app. But not one worth $30. Sad to see Peter sold this app, and furthermore sorry to see that SmileOnYourMac decided to try to chop off Mac users' limbs. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 23 May 2006 19:49
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ALERT! CAUTION! This upload appears to be the first Shareware release at $29.95. Do not upgrade if you do not want to lose your freeware copy! |
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Type: Comments
Date: 6 May 2006 01:03
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Yes, please do make this Intel Mac compatible! :) |
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Type: Comments
Date: 19 Apr 2006 23:49
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This just seems pretty unacceptable that one site being down will destroy the functionality of the app. Consider that it is a public beta, my friend. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 12 Apr 2006 12:48
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I've got about 3000. (I use del.icio.us as a linklog for my blog, not an online bookmark service.) Works fine. So, not a numerical problem. :) |
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Type: Comments
Date: 6 Apr 2006 11:34
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Quite nice, very pretty, but not really useful until it understands and imports GED files, a standard class-platform genealogical file format for almost every single genealogy program out there. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 5 Apr 2006 23:47
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Installed fine on my iMac. This firmware update seems to add the "washing the dishes" option, also known as the "kitchen sink" option, wherein your computer gains mobility and does your dirty dishes. Is an Apple dishwasher next? |
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Type: Comments
Date: 29 Mar 2006 09:04
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How about an Intel Mac port? |
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Type: Comments
Date: 19 Mar 2006 13:43
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I agree with the others who remark that it's difficult to find a reason to pay for the functionality in this program, when it is less than what is offered by TextWrangler free. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 22 Jan 2006 11:07
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I never saw the sense in trying to sell an application designed to format a plain text e-mail that arrives in your inbox free. This appears to be one of those cases where the designers in question misunderstand the value of releasing free software to the community. If this had been given away free from the beginning, it would have had a substantially beneficial effect on the Mac community's goodwill in its perception of him, most likely boosting his reputation (or "whuffie," as the erstwhile ranter Cory Doctorow might put it). Trying to charge $10 for this functionality is just SAD. |
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