User "arvidtp" Profile
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About Arvid
Experimental/Electronic musician - Max/MSP/Jitter junkie, Geologist and Mac enthusiast. Brown University Alum
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Real Name:Arvid Tomayko-Peters
Posts:76
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Last Login:7 Feb 2008 11:46
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User Reviews
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Type: Comments
Date: 26 Apr 2008 16:42
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I use Cyberduck all the time. Good app. The only thing I dont like about the 3.0 beta versions is that usually the bookmarks will not be visible. I like to drag-and-drop things on them, rather than in the window so I dont get springloaded folders accidentally opening and stuff, and so i know exactly where the file will go. THe drawer was a nicer bookmark interface. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 2 Apr 2008 09:41
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pretty cool! Could also be good for recording when you are trying to figure out where to place mics. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 23 Mar 2008 21:10
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WARNING TO NEW USERS: 2.4.5r2 is NOT the stable version of Gimp. There are still some problems with this version. Most people would be better served by the official version that still runs under X11. BTW - I cannot type anything into the save dialog box in this version to name the file I am going to save - the keyboard types through to the other windows and chooses tools instead of naming the file. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 23 Mar 2008 21:05
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dont know, but the ardour supplies some packages of plugins that they compiled themselves - these installers should put the plugins in a place where Ardour will look for them. Also I think Audiounit support is in the cards for future development. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 23 Mar 2008 21:01
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no. Ardour actually uses jack as its audio engine - not just as another core audio interface. Ardour wil not work without jack. On linux Jack is more than just a way to send audio around - it also is an audio engine and a way to send timecode around to sync applications simialr to rewire. Its just that there are not many mac apps that support jack natively. PD is one I can think of that can. |
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Type: Troubleshooting
Date: 9 Mar 2008 12:54
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I a really excited about trying this, but it does not seem to be able to save anything - I just get "iCompta[10430] Invalid store URL: nil" in the console when I try to save... |
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Type: Comments
Date: 7 Mar 2008 12:13
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had the same problem with v1.3 in Leopard, but upgrading to v1.6.1 fixed it |
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Type: Troubleshooting
Date: 7 Mar 2008 11:30
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caused my finder to crash when I went into full screen mode |
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Type: Troubleshooting
Date: 6 Mar 2008 22:30
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I just had the same thing happen to me with GlowWorm-1.5.3b4 on 10.5.2! Thankfully I had already read your post and removed the kext before force-restarting so I didn't have to go through safe mode. This program, while I'm sure it is good intentioned, needs some work. best, Arvid |
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Type: Comments
Date: 7 Feb 2008 11:49
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You only ever need to install the last major version on the last patch - they include all previous patches in the current one. So its not a big deal... I love NeoOffice. It's a tad slow on my powerbook G4... but it always gets the job done! And due to openoffice's stability and good auto-saving/recovery features, I've only once lost more than a sentence worth of work from a crash in more than 4 years of using openoffice/neooffice. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 19 Jan 2008 16:55
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This looks really cool... I just wish php documents would also update as you type like html documents do. I guess it would have to have its own access to the php engine like Taco HTML Edit does. |
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Type: Developer
Date: 19 Jan 2008 16:03
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OK - feel free to download this version... pahhh I will be more careful next time - sorry! |
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Type: Developer
Date: 19 Jan 2008 15:48
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As I said, please DO NOT DOWNLOAD VERSION 0.41. It is broken (stupid me). The proper file can be found here: http://arvidtp.net/sw/maestro_frankenstein.html Thanks! |
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Type: Developer
Date: 19 Jan 2008 15:14
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Hi, please dont download this version - I just made a big mistake. I'll have a new version in and hour! --Thanks! |
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Type: Comments
Date: 19 Jan 2008 12:20
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hangs when trying to connect to a server. useless. I was hoping to be able to use its sync feature - there are no free ftp programs with a sync feature that i know of for mac. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 1 Dec 2007 18:14
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editing files with non .css extensions was just what I wanted to edit blogger templates. Well done on the latest release! |
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Type: Comments
Date: 20 Oct 2007 10:24
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I thought I would give it another try, but sure enough - system hosed again - had to force reboot. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 10 Oct 2007 20:57
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i take that bacl - Cashbox has been opensourced, but, yes, seems to be proceeding slowly. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 10 Oct 2007 20:50
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nice looking! doesn't have a cross-account transfer feature yet, but otherwise promising - I'll watch this one to see if it ever gets better than the no longer developed (or so it seems) Cashbox |
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Type: Comments
Date: 12 Sep 2007 22:29
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this looks like a DOPE upgrade! And its cheaper now. Wheeee! |
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Type: Troubleshooting
Date: 27 Aug 2007 17:27
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I want to like this app, but so far all it does when I try to connect to an FTP server is beachball ALL my apps for upwards of 5 minutes (I can't do anything at all with the mac, in any app!) then says unmounted next to the FTP account in the MacFUSE list when it is finally done with this. OS X 10.4.10, Powerbook G4 1.25GHz |
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Type: Review
Date: 1 Aug 2007 10:49
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hmm - too mousy for me. A valiant effort, but takes too long to use. You should be able to edit transactions as soon as you have selected them, not have to click a button. Category lists should be bigger so you can see more than 6 categories at once when scrolling, Return key should enter the transaction, etc. Feature-wise I would like to see a way to add notes/titles to splits in a transaction. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 1 Aug 2007 09:58
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ahhh... much better! |
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Type: Comments
Date: 1 Aug 2007 09:48
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Looks like a really cool little program - I was considering giving it a trial run, except that the preferences are not accessible - preferences does ot appear in any of the menus or at a button anywhere. Also the app has quite the name in the menubar (com.pipocaware.ezmoney.ApplicationLauncher)! But looks really promising! MacOS X 10.4.10, PPC |
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Type: Comments
Date: 27 Jul 2007 07:08
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Yeah - I think the first public version of Skim DID open maximized - at least of one pagewidth. But since that first release that feature seems to have been broken. I have tried all the settings in the preferences, and even trashed my prefs... |
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Type: Review
Date: 11 Jun 2007 11:19
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Smultron is great!!! Just a suggestion for advanced find: It would be fantastic to have a column of check-boxes (default is ON) along with the find results so that you could set some results to not be replaced when you click the replace button. |
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Type: Review
Date: 13 May 2007 15:14
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Tansparency! Notes appear in the middle of the screen! The best PDF reader ever keeps getting better! Some awkward key commands for making markups, but you can remap them in System Preferences. I made them be Ctrl + a letter that corresponded to the markup type. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 13 May 2007 15:11
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it is saved in the document metadata I think - anyhow you can find out in the good documentation they have provided. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 22 Apr 2007 13:08
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I, as a soon to be Computer Music and Multimedia graduate from Brown and Max/MSP hacker, actually find this fun and interesting ---- so its not just for little kids! Cool concept |
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Type: Comments
Date: 6 Apr 2007 15:52
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a workaround, like in preview, is to hold option while selecting to select a rectangle of text. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 6 Mar 2007 15:24
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the backup to disk image feature is just accessed differently in this version. |
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Type: Developer
Date: 25 Feb 2007 12:27
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This has been fixed. Thanks. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 15 Feb 2007 08:31
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Hmm - you need to remove the .bz2 suffix from the file to make it just a plain .dmg. To the dev: please do this. Thanks |
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Type: Comments
Date: 5 Feb 2007 21:10
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i dont think thats the app - the mic on the powerbook G4 is right next to the speaker - instant feedback. Make sure u are not having the recorded sound playing back through the speakers as it is being recorded. |
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Type: Developer
Date: 10 Jan 2007 10:07
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Please note that the main download is now a universal binary, despite what the page says. It should work on all macs running Tiger. Thanks! |
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Type: Comments
Date: 15 Dec 2006 10:35
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Also for PNGs, PNGCrusher or another similar utility even shaves a few hundred bytes off most PNGs saved from Photoshop's "save for web" feature. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 6 Dec 2006 17:32
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Is it just me, or does the download link script on adobe's site not work in Safari?? |
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Type: Comments
Date: 27 Nov 2006 14:08
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Great - except the icons come out looking a bit less sharp - a little blurry - when created from larger images. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 17 Nov 2006 11:38
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Yeah - commenting tools would make this my PDF reader of choice! Preview's commenting tools are so cool in theory, but just so useless. It seems with so little extra effort and thought they could have been more useful! For instance when u use the big red circles - they should be somewhat transparent -like a highligher because when u circle a word with an oval that fat, it invariably covers up words in the lines above and below, making them unreadable. And the text in text commenting in preview is just to large a font to be useful to me for writing in the margins of PDFs, and there is no way to change it. So close... but so far. So if you could do better than that part of preview, you would be my hero. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 10 Nov 2006 11:08
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i'm sure its for testing stuff while on the road and not wanting the haul the controller around. Thats all. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 2 Nov 2006 22:31
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Giving the average user the ability to create paths and polygons is great - I was excited - BUT they are somewhat useless if you cant get statistics on them (area, length, etc.) I was hoping to use paths to keep track of my runs and bike rides, but one still has to use the ruler tool to measure them, and I can't find a way to convert between a ruler path and a path path... |
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Type: Troubleshooting
Date: 1 Nov 2006 12:12
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Did they fix the applescripting bugs they introduced yet? I'm not updating from 6.0.5 until they do! |
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Type: Comments
Date: 20 Oct 2006 11:47
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excuse my ignorance - they actually do slide away - thats good. Its just that they take a while and come back Whenever the mouse is moved, not just when it is moved near the top or bottom. Thats all i would change. |
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Type: Review
Date: 20 Oct 2006 11:26
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wow this is great stuff! I really like it - and FAST too! The only complaints i have are lack of a zoom feature and and that the bars at the top and bottom do not slide off the screen when not in use, like they do in iPhoto - as it is now they obscure part of the photo you are viewing. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 9 Oct 2006 22:46
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yeah, this software is pretty bad --- and slow. I pitty the inexperienced mac users who install it and let it set itself as the default program for web and local pdf viewing without knowing there is a much better pdf viewer built into their OS... I only download it because some improperly created pdf forms only work on Adobe Reader. Also, I've found a sneaky way to get around not being able to save a form with data in it (not re-editable of course - but like the way it can be done in preview). |
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Type: Comments
Date: 7 Oct 2006 10:36
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I love this trackpad driver - been using since it came out. iScroll2 is fantastic and i get frustrated on mac laptops that dont have it - however I urge the developer to go back to whatever circular scrolling method was used in 0.25, because no matter what I do I cannot get circular scrolling in version 0.26 to be as sensitive and usable as in 0.25 (on an Alumn. Powerbook G4 15" 1.25GHz). It is just way to jumpy and fast in 0.26... |
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Type: Comments
Date: 1 Oct 2006 19:19
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Great! WOrks much better now. However, all HTML messages come out with no text - just a few little angle backet characters... I know this is a mail bug, not the developer's fault. I encountered the same thing when i tried to write a similar automator action a while back. But is there a workaround - like converting the message to plain text some other way before mail's conversion can get its hands on it? best, Vid |
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Type: Comments
Date: 1 Oct 2006 14:46
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my only gripe is that if your connection goes down (ie shaky wireless goes out), Shimo does not detect this, and one must first disconnect then reconnect. No biggy, could be better. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 26 Sep 2006 11:11
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Thanks!! |
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Type: Comments
Date: 25 Sep 2006 20:06
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This software keeps getting better! It is now better than what i was using before - the no-longer maintained TimeCard. However, when i choose either text or csv export, nothing happens! no file seems to be created (i was saving to the desktop). Also on the exported file - 'wages' might not be the best word to use if the exported sheet is being used as an invoice… But it works. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 24 Sep 2006 13:44
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ahhh… much better! |
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Type: Troubleshooting
Date: 12 Sep 2006 22:54
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Ahhh! this looked so cool - but its website is gone from homepage.mac.com! |
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Type: Comments
Date: 17 Aug 2006 12:37
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i also use desinstaller for these things - works very well to uninstall packages. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 25 Apr 2006 17:34
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Great! I love it. The only complaint I have is with the bottom edges of finder and other windows - they just feel sorta unfinished - sorta square/flat. A slightly beveled edge appearance like in the standard metal would be nice maybe. |
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Type: Troubleshooting
Date: 20 Apr 2006 12:10
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Are you sure? 1.41 does not work for my SSL connected account (but it does for my non-SSL one) But great widget idea by the way - very handy. If it would just work for both my accounts... |
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Type: Comments
Date: 11 Apr 2006 01:05
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ouch - despite how much I like megazoomer's concept i had to remove it. i notice it causes problems with some apps - Lots of applescript-based utilities will either give me Applescript NS (4) errors, or something like that, or just quit without a warning or a crash report when megazoomer is installed. removing it from the SIMBL plugins folder solved the issues. |
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Type: Review
Date: 17 Mar 2006 15:23
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Awesome! I just isolated a bad RAM module on my powerbook using this in Single User Mode. Now i know why it was kernel-panicing 3 times a day for the last week! But how can a factory installed apple RAM chip just go bad like that... maybe it was dodgy from the start - the source of my powerbook's subtle directory damage malaise that crops up every few months? Lets hope so. |
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Type: Review
Date: 17 Mar 2006 15:11
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Agreed. Great little thingie. Its very handy. And it lets you see easily how much bandwidth you have left. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 26 Feb 2006 18:06
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as i said before, great program… but: version 2.1.2 breaks the history recall feature that was in vers 2.1.0 and before - and having the inspector as a separate window is not so hot... It should be a floating pallet if it must be a separate window… I'm going back to 2.1.0 - its easier to use. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 26 Feb 2006 16:21
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and nice screenshot! I took a paleao-oceanography class last semester and might be doing more this summer… cool stuff! |
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Type: Review
Date: 26 Feb 2006 16:18
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awesome! as a geologist and electronic musician who often finds that standard graphing software makes it difficult to represent simple but specific things, this is great! For simple displays to demonstrate concenpts in geology, or to do approximate frequency/musical activity or stereo-image graphs for studio techniques class… Great for graphing subjective things where the visual is more important than the numbers! I just would like some way of making a curve - bezier?, or some other method? rather than just line segments. But otherwise excellent. Interface is clean and easy easy to learn. |
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Type: Comments
Date: 17 Feb 2006 21:56
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however I just realized that "open in editor" does not always work on 10.3.9 (crashes photoshop on launch, does not open in preview), and "save as..." does nothing... Also iPhoto should be in the editor list - at least it is not on my mac (iPhoto 5.0.4). |
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Type: Review
Date: 17 Feb 2006 21:47
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sweet! FINALLY a free program the supports zooming and panning in full screen mode! And the scrolling through a directory of images with the mouse wheel is an excellent idea. Love the plethora of customizable key commands. (I switched zoom in to use "=" instead of "+" like other apps - less use of shift key). Had one crash in 10.3.9 - when selecting color for window background for second time with the same color picker open. But other than that great!! |
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Type: Comments
Date: 12 Feb 2006 12:53
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I used to like this great little software, but for the last few versions it has just beachballed after asking my password... (10.3.9, powerbook) |
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Type: Comments
Date: 7 Feb 2006 12:27
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i mean http://jimpetersart.com |
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Type: Review
Date: 7 Feb 2006 12:18
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great little gadget - my dad uses it to blow up photos to immense proportions to work into his paintings ( http://jimpatersart.com ). Could have a better zoom/resize source PDF feature... but other than that, great! |
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Type: Troubleshooting
Date: 1 Feb 2006 11:10
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Gives me an applescript error on launch in 10.4.4 on a G5: Can't get character 1 of "". (-1728) previous versions worked great... |
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