BRUMM  Huh? Tried without success, Terminal/Shell needed?

- Are you shure your comment is related to ThumbsUp? -

With the utmost probability you've gotta be kidding, but unless:

You _don't_ need the Terminal/Shell...

ThumbsUp is a standalone app, nothing else needed, maybe you are a bit alienated by its small file size of 704k, but it is a real app. - The programmers of ThumbsUp are high professionals showing huge knowledge not huge apps... they know how to code small, efficient and fast apps, it doesn't need some megabytes of code for such an easy exercise as resizing & sharpening images.

Again:

ThumbsUp is a _droplet app_, you start it by doubleclicking on it, configure your desired settings and then drop imagefiles on it.

It will do its job and after a short while your images are smaller/bigger related to your settings.

Just read the "ReadMe.rtf".

The one thing that you can't read in the "ReadMe.rtf", is just that ThumbsUp can not only sharpen the previews but the images itself.

Alright now?  
(Version 4.4)

BRUMM  Hi TEKL,

ThumbsUp in fact IS a:

-droplet-

You may ask the developer about scriptable/shell.

Or just try it yourself - the download is only 307 K...  
(Version 4.4)

BRUMM  Wow, a professionell DTP app for 195 Dollars/129 Euros?

Well, with all the white it looks a bit like early Quark versions, but it is really super fast, has a well thought-out interface, good comfort, many clever features.

Compared to the price tag of Quark and Indesign this is just unbelievable.

Trying out for 5 hours now, where are the bugs, is there any catch?

Too poor I have bought Indesign CS3 a couple of month ago, I think I will try this app a bit longer before buying the CS4 update (....or not buying).

Overall a very good first impression.

Alltough a full featurered 30 day trial would be much better.  
(Version 1.15)

BRUMM  Sorry made a mistake, took the older 0.20 version for my comparison.

RAM and CPU usage are BETTER then iTunes'.

Great software, the best freeware I've seen so far, MANY thanks.

Again sorry, I consider harakiri now...

But at first my 5 stars to this app.

Ah, just one point:

Ah little popup menu showing the titles I've dropped on ToolPlayer, maybe popping up if I click on the titles name display, would be very fine.  
(Version 0.2.5)

BRUMM  RAM & CPU usage still nearly twice as much as iTunes, both compared without EQ or effects.

But ToolPlayer supports many modern lossless sound formats, FLAC, etc., that Steve Jobs' iTunes still snootily declines.

That's the big plus on independent software, mostly modern and forward looking, strive on progressiveness and quality products, - not solely money orientated.  
(Version 0.2.5)

BRUMM  My opinion on word processors for OS X:

The last days I've tested many word processors and I found Mellel to be the best so far,

Mellel is not bloated like all the "Office" suites (Neo, OO, MS, are all to slow, ... for me Neo Office is the best of these beasts.)

and Mellel is better than:

- Nisus (Nearest competitor but Nisus doesn't support soft hyphen!, I simply cannot work without soft hyphen.),

- Mariner Write (really bad font display/spacing for many years now, only english, carbon - so it needs to be rewritten for future OSX releases, will they do that? I'm unsure.)

- Pages (Again no soft hyphen!, occasionally crashes and after a while gets very slow, ... but I exspect the next versions will be much better)

- Papyrus (very ugly, carbon, no real testdrive possible - crippled trial version, but some interesting features - I keep an eye on it)

- AbiWord (Many bugs and no updates the last 2 years, I think they don't support the Mac anymore)

- Bean (really fanstatic freeware, but based on Apples buggy text-engine. No soft hyphen! So only usable for some very short texts, best freeware I've seen for many many years - of course I keep an eye on it)

For now I will use Mellel.

The only things that I don't like are related to the interface design, for example the round beveled look of the ruler and tools section is very outdated now, a boring all-grey mix of alien spaceship ("aqua"-style) or early iTunes versions ("metal"-style).

But besides that Mellel has the best combination of features for me, so my money goes to them.   
(Version 3.8)

BRUMM  My opinion on word processors for OS X:

The last days I've tested many word processors and I found Mellel to be the best so far,

Mellel is not bloated like all the "Office" suites (Neo, OO, MS, are all to slow, ... for me Neo Office is the best of these beasts.)

and Mellel is better than:

- Nisus (Nearest competitor but Nisus doesn't support soft hyphen!, I simply cannot work without soft hyphen.),

- Mariner Write (really bad font display/spacing for many years now, only english, carbon - so it needs to be rewritten for future OSX releases, will they do that? I'm unsure.)

- Pages (Again no soft hyphen!, occasionally crashes and after a while gets very slow, ... but I exspect the next versions will be much better)

- Papyrus (very ugly, carbon, no real testdrive possible - crippled trial version, but some interesting features - I keep an eye on it)

- AbiWord (Many bugs and no updates the last 2 years, I think they don't support the Mac anymore)

- Bean (really fanstatic freeware, but based on Apples buggy text-engine. No soft hyphen! So only usable for some very short texts, best freeware I've seen for many many years - of course I keep an eye on it)

For now I will use Mellel.

The only things that I don't like are related to the interface design, for example the round beveled look of the ruler and tools section is very outdated now, a boring all-grey mix of alien spaceship ("aqua"-style) or early iTunes versions ("metal"-style).

But besides that Mellel has the best combination of features for me, so my money goes to them.   
(Version 3.1)

BRUMM  My opinion on word processors for OS X:

The last days I've tested many word processors and I found Mellel to be the best so far,

Mellel is not bloated like all the "Office" suites (Neo, OO, MS, are all to slow, ... for me Neo Office is the best of these beasts.)

and Mellel is better than:

- Nisus (Nearest competitor but Nisus doesn't support soft hyphen!, I simply cannot work without soft hyphen.),

- Mariner Write (really bad font display/spacing for many years now, only english, carbon - so it needs to be rewritten for future OSX releases, will they do that? I'm unsure.)

- Pages (Again no soft hyphen!, occasionally crashes and after a while gets very slow, ... but I exspect the next versions will be much better)

- Papyrus (very ugly, carbon, no real testdrive possible - crippled trial version, but some interesting features - I keep an eye on it)

- AbiWord (Many bugs and no updates the last 2 years, I think they don't support the Mac anymore)

- Bean (really fanstatic freeware, but based on Apples buggy text-engine. No soft hyphen! So only usable for some very short texts, best freeware I've seen for many many years - of course I keep an eye on it)

For now I will use Mellel.

The only things that I don't like are related to the interface design, for example the round beveled look of the ruler and tools section is very outdated now, a boring all-grey mix of alien spaceship ("aqua"-style) or early iTunes versions ("metal"-style).

But besides that Mellel has the best combination of features for me, so my money goes to them.   
(Version 1.1)

BRUMM  My opinion on word processors for OS X:

The last days I've tested many word processors and I found Mellel to be the best so far,

Mellel is not bloated like all the "Office" suites (Neo, OO, MS, are all to slow, ... for me Neo Office is the best of these beasts.)

and Mellel is better than:

- Nisus (Nearest competitor but Nisus doesn't support soft hyphen!, I simply cannot work without soft hyphen.),

- Mariner Write (really bad font display/spacing for many years now, only english, carbon - so it needs to be rewritten for future OSX releases, will they do that? I'm unsure.)

- Pages (Again no soft hyphen!, occasionally crashes and after a while gets very slow, ... but I exspect the next versions will be much better)

- Papyrus (very ugly, carbon, no real testdrive possible - crippled trial version, but some interesting features - I keep an eye on it)

- AbiWord (Many bugs and no updates the last 2 years, I think they don't support the Mac anymore)

- Bean (really fanstatic freeware, but based on Apples buggy text-engine. No soft hyphen! So only usable for some very short texts, best freeware I've seen for many many years - of course I keep an eye on it)

For now I will use Mellel.

The only things that I don't like are related to the interface design, for example the round beveled look of the ruler and tools section is very outdated now, a boring all-grey mix of alien spaceship ("aqua"-style) or early iTunes versions ("metal"-style).

But besides that Mellel has the best combination of features for me, so my money goes to them.   
(Version 3.0.2)

BRUMM  This is the best resizer I've found,

ThumbsUp can not only create thumbnails or icons for images and movies.

ThumbsUp goes far beyond, it's a superfast batch image resizer, a format converter (for example jpg to tiff, etc.) and ThumbsUp can sharpen (!) and antialias (!) the images (not only the thumbs as falsly stated in the manual) and can do all that in one fast step.

...and this FREEware, wonderfull, thank you very much.   
(Version 4.4)

BRUMM  24 DOLLARS ....OR just FREE as in BEER:

The best resizer I've found for Mac is the FREEWARE 'ThumbsUp',

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/11898/thumbsup

ThumbsUp can not only create thumbnails or icons for images and movies.

ThumbsUp goes far beyond, it's a superfast batch image resizer, a format converter (for example jpg to tiff, etc.) and ThumbsUp can sharpen (!) and antialias (!) the images (not only the thumbs as falsly stated in the manual) and can do all that in one fast step.

...and yes, ThumsUp is FREEware.  
(Version 2.2.3)

BRUMM  20 DOLLARS ....OR just FREE as in BEER:

The best resizer I've found for Mac is the FREEWARE 'ThumbsUp',

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/11898/thumbsup

ThumbsUp can not only create thumbnails or icons for images and movies.

ThumbsUp goes far beyond, it's a superfast batch image resizer, a format converter (for example jpg to tiff, etc.) and ThumbsUp can sharpen (!) and antialias (!) the images (not only the thumbs as falsly stated in the manual) and can do all that in one fast step.

...and yes, ThumsUp is FREEware.  
(Version 3.5.3)

BRUMM  15 DOLLARS ....OR just FREE as in BEER:

The best resizer I've found for Mac is the FREEWARE 'ThumbsUp',

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/11898/thumbsup

ThumbsUp can not only create thumbnails or icons for images and movies.

ThumbsUp goes far beyond, it's a superfast batch image resizer, a format converter (for example jpg to tiff, etc.) and ThumbsUp can sharpen (!) and antialias (!) the images (not only the thumbs as falsly stated in the manual) and can do all that in one fast step.

...and yes, ThumsUp is FREEware.

I think Quickscale is far to expensive, therefore I don't give more than one star  
(Version 3.7)

BRUMM  20 DOLLARS ....OR just FREE as in BEER:

The best resizer I've found for Mac is the FREEWARE 'ThumbsUp',

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/11898/thumbsup

ThumbsUp can not only create thumbnails or icons for images and movies.

ThumbsUp goes far beyond, it's a superfast batch image resizer, a format converter (for example jpg to tiff, etc.) and ThumbsUp can sharpen (!) and antialias (!) the images (not only the thumbs as falsly stated in the manual) and can do all that in one fast step.

...and yes, ThumsUp is FREEware.

But if anybody want to spend 20 dollars for additional flipping and rotating, BatchResize is the right place.

Or, I've recently discovered the big secret that Mac OS X's Preview flips and rotates for free...

I think ResizeMe is far to expensive, (a quarter of a whole operation system, OS X)

therefore I don't give more than one star  
(Version 1.3.1)

BRUMM  Yes, I know where to find the price information, but I think it should be shown here.

Listing only the term "demo" here is not very informative...  
(Version 1.1)

BRUMM  I don't understand your sarcastic replies, this is the right place to write about such annoying restrictions of trial versions.

Others users should be informed before they download an app.

Any kind of critique related to an product can be posted here, wether negative or positive, you may like it or not.

The developer was insightful and changed the trial behavior meanwhile, I think thats better for all now.  
(Version 2.5)

BRUMM  My opinion on word processor for OS X:

The last days I've tested many word processors and I found Mellel to be the best so far,

Mellel is not bloated like all the "Office" suites (Neo, OO, MS, are all to slow, ... for me Neo Office is the best of these beasts.)

and Mellel is better than:

- Nisus (Nearest competitor but Nisus doesn't support soft hyphen!, I cannot work without soft hyphen.),

- Mariner Write (really bad font display/spacing for many years now, only english, carbon - so it needs to be rewritten for future OSX releases, will they do that? I'm unsure.)

- Pages (Again no soft hyphen!, occasionally crashes and after a while gets very slow, ... but I exspect the next versions will be much better)

- Papyrus (very ugly, carbon, no real testdrive possible - crippled trial version, but some interesting features - I keep an eye on it)

- AbiWord (Many bugs and no updates the last 2 years, I think they don't support the Mac anymore)

- Bean (really fanstatic freeware, based on Apples buggy text-engine. No soft hyphen! So only usable for some very short texts, best freeware I've seen for many many years - of course I keep an eye on it)

For now I will use Mellel.

The only things that I don't like are related to the interface design, for example the round beveled look of the ruler and tools section is very outdated now, a boring all-grey mix of alien spaceship ("aqua"-style) or early iTunes versions ("metal"-style).

But besides that Mellel has the best combination of features for me, so my money goes to them.  
(Version 2.5)

BRUMM  "this isn't a forum"

Very useful user feedback here, I like that.

I think MacUpdate is the right place to share user experiences otherwise it would be not much more than a listing of apps.

So everything alright here for me.  
(Version 9.0.2)

BRUMM  - the ability of skim to recognize a two separate column document (most of the papers); when you select a few lines of the first column (for highlighting, for example) it spreads over the second one! and vice-versa... it's really annoying that selection, as if it was a one column only document...

Yes, I agree, that would be very very useful!  
(Version 1.1.13)

BRUMM  Yes, would be a nice feature for eBooks,

but, no, at this time it can't.

Perhaps in a later release...  
(Version 1.1.13)

BRUMM  Hi OPeter,

many thanks for the clarification, I also googled a bit meanwhile, I didn't knew that.

After all I consider buying a new Mac next month or so to be able to use OpenOffice.

- Just kidding -

No, I think I will give Nisus Writer or maybe iWork a testdrive soon, as my Powerbook is still fast enough for me and my office work.

Both apps are high rated here, let's see.

Again, many thanks to you.  
(Version 3.0)

BRUMM  Hi OPeter,

Are you shure about that?

I think I remember realworld tests were even an G4 450 Mhz clearly outperformed 800 MHz Intels PCs (or 1200 Mhz Intel PCs, I can't remember exactly how much Mhz and have no time to google for that now.)

I thought Apple changed to Intel processors because they were cheaper and because Motorola couldn't produce PPCs faster than 1,4 Ghz or so at that time, and Apples big marketing trick was to make their customers believe that all of a sudden the Intel processors would be faster.

But besides that, it is unbelievable that a 1 Ghz PPC seems to be to slow nowadays for an office app.

I mean - we are not talking about movie editing or 3D rendering, it's just a bit typing and calculating.

As I see it, it just makes no sense to save some money on the software side and spent a lot of money on the hardware side, just to get the same speed as you had with the former apps on former computers.

I thought they would make a a fast and slight office solution contrary to Microsofts bloated Office. And now after so much time and work it is even slower than that.

I don't get it.  
(Version 3.0)

BRUMM  After a very slow start it is very fast,

it's the better product, I trashed OpenOffice Aqua  
(Version 2.2.5p2)

BRUMM  Developer: Nisus Software, Inc.

Downloads: 10,843

- Version d/l: 884

Business: Word Processing

License: Demo

Date: 15 Apr 2008

Platform: PPC/Intel

RATING

Write A Review | 15 Reviews

License: Demo --> So how much is it?  
(Version 1.1)

BRUMM  He Ned Scott,

five idiots gave you a minus for your legitimate critique,

so I fight back and give you my plus. ;-)

It's a plus from me, so it is worth far more than 5 minuses from some bootlickers.  
(Version 3.0)

BRUMM  I've been waiting a very long time for this and donated 30 Euros twice to this project,

but now, what I get is absolutely unuseable.

For example it takes 3 minutes to open a 500 pages rtf file here. Scrolling is unbelievible slow and a simple Search & Replace takes forever.

Any other tips to optimize the performance, beside the java tip?

(btw. NeoOffice is based on Java and much faster...?)

I'm on a 1 Ghz PowerMac with 1 GB RAM - as every longtime Mac user knows PPCs are twice as fast as Intel PCs, so what is wrong here?  
(Version 3.0)