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About Charles
Training Director at Connecting Point, quite possibly the oldest indepedent Mac dealer in the country. Politically left-of-center but not radical, happy to embrace SENSIBLE right-leaning ideas. Like most people, I'm fiscally conservative and socially pragmatic. A nice guy who can still think fast and be funny. Can get grouchy at times.
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I went to the website but can't find any videos. Link? |
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Adobe Air does not require "unrestricted" access (ie root). It needs Admin access (which you may think is "unrestricted" but that's not correct) because it needs to install components within the system, in much the same way that QuickTime needs similar access in order to function. |
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Dang it, I just discovered this thing! And it works with Canadian banks, even! COME BACK!! |
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This is a very clever idea and an interesting UI. The only real flaw I can find with this is that it appears to be unable to record streams (as, say, Audio Hijack or Wiretap can). As-is, this is a great easy tool for musicians and vocal recording, voiceovers, practicing and podcasting, so if they add the ability to record audio off the net I think they've got a really solid product here. |
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Having just gotten this thanks to the MU promo bundle (thanks, guys!) I'm looking forward to testing it versus my beloved Amadeus Pro. Still -- I've been using Fission a lot lately for "quick" editing because of it's "no further loss" nature, and wondering why AP nor SS offer this amazing ability. For jobs where you are just "cutting and/or pasting" audio, you should be able to save losslessly like Fission offers. |
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I was a little nervous that this was going to be a "gotcha" because I bought Mac Pilot as part of a bundle. But lo and behold, because I was within the time frame I got a free upgraded license. Well done! |
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Add a US proxy so that we Canadians (and others) can enjoy Pandora again and you've got not just a sale, but an evangelist. |
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Followed instructions. Program continues to do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. Thanks for wasting my time. |
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Have not tried it (yet!), but if all it does is catalog and view your media (even very quickly), $49 is HIGHWAY ROBBERY. Call me when this is $19.99 or less. |
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Cats can look after themselves. :) |
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Can't get the 1.1 dmg file to open -- verification failed. Tried from both MU's link and direct from the dev site. |
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Wow, SOMEBODY'S been looking at Numbers ... |
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If you already own Word, and don't want to shell out the bucks for Final Draft, Magic Movie Screenwriter or Montage, this might be a good alternative. If you started your screenplay on a "friend's" copy of FD or MMS, you can now convert that file to and from ScreenWright's MSWord format, making this in my view now a complete product. Haven't tried it yet, but you might want to check out the free trial -- I will. |
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While I do appreciate the work that must have gone into taming the beast that is MS Word into a workable manuscript processor, I doubt that anyone who's already paid for Word is going to want to shell out that much over again (Word, on the rare occasions it's offered as a standalone product, usually sells for around $99-129) to turn it into a single-purpose app. Assuming it's utterly flawless, a professional person who makes a living turning Word output from idiot authors into usable manuscripts might find this worth it, if only there weren't open-source materials that, with a little fine-tuning, can do the job just as well or faster and cost only the time spent fine-tuning. |
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Leo Spill -- why not give it a try first before commenting? WireTap Studio has a few features that the AHP/Fission combo doesn't. Maybe that's worth the extra $5 (compared to buying AHP and Fission separately), maybe it's not. Costs nothing to find out. Heck of a lot cheaper than the other competitors (SoundStudio, Deck/Peak, etc) either way. (I agree that the AHP/Fission combo deal is a great price, and as a registered user of both I like them a lot, but like most people I didn't think to buy them at the same time, so WTS isn't a hugely more expensive item and I plan to take a close look at it.) |
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Great program, but for US users the $17 price is a little hard to justify for a program one is probably only going to use occasionally. At $10 or less I would be far more likely to buy. |
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While it's always a pleasure to see a useful program actively supported and expanded by the developer, this at-least-once-a-week update schedule suggests that perhaps the dev ought to add more/update more between releases lest it look like he just didn't think the program's purpose through very well and is playing catch-up on the fly. Again, I'm appreciative of the program and the dev's efforts to improve it, but bigger updates a big less often would be fine too. |
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I had used the previous version of this successfully, but this one (1.1) eats up my CPU and writes temp files to fill up my hard drive RAPIDLY. BIG problems. Deleted until the developer corrects these issues. |
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Re: the comment about MenuCalendarClock I'm not knocking MagiCal, but what you said about MenuCalendarClock simply isn't true. I own the program and get NO reminders (because that's how I like it) unless and until I click on the menubar icon. MagiCal looks nice and is free, so it's perfect for some. MenuCalendarClock has a few more tricks up its sleeve, however, and some may feel it's worth the small shareware fee. I entreat any readers to try them both and make up your own mind. |
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VERY excited about this, early trials look very promising, thanks so much!! However, one quibble: I would really, REALLY like to be able to search for games from a list using the actual name of the game. At present, the "list" checkbox is blank and I must type in the actual ROM name (which is often, but not always, similar to the game name but just a bit different). Surely it would not be hard to have the program "grab" the list of ROMs by their real titles on startup? Thanks again! |
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Could the developer take a look at this site: http://www.fabchannel.com and see if FVD can capture any of those flash performances |
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Not as good as MenuCalendarClock, but OTOH it's free. |
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The price listed is sort of deceptive. The $4.95 charge is PER MONTH, ie ongoing. To the developer: this is a marvelous utility, but I'm totally uninterested in paying you continuously. Price it at a fair price (say $9.99), charge for major updates if necessary, but let us pay a flat rate. You are a small operation and we have no idea if you will be around a month, six months, a year from now. |
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I really appreciate Allume making the expander available separately, FREE, as a Universal Binary for us Intel Mac owners. Thanks, Allume! It certainly keeps you on my mind favourably. |
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It means you have too much RAM installed, or not the type of RAM Parallels was expecting. Best thing to do is contact the company and let them help you troubleshoot -- they are very helpful. |
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I applaud alternatives to Toast/Jam, but given that this program is untried and untested yet costs MORE than Jam, don't think I'll be giving it a spin anytime real soon. Rethink that price policy boys and good luck! |
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Would be a LOT more useful if I could specify a date range of mail I want backed up. Still, the price on this is right ... so thanks for an excellent start! |
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Marvelous recreation of a game I loved in childhood. Many thanks! |
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Holy crap!! What is this guy, 12? That's got to be some kind of all-time "ugly, useless web site" winner. With DVDpedia around, I'm really not inclined to give this one a try given the complete lack of any sense of aesthetics by the dev. Maybe someday I'll be bored enough to experiment. |
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One of the better Yahtzee clones for OS X because it allows for triple-play, but I'm afraid it doesn't hold a candle to Super Dice-It from the old OS 8 days (the *last* Classic software I still use!). I even asked the author of Super Dice-It to update it but he doesn't have time. I'd suggest the developer of Triple Fun take a look at Super Dice-It and take the game further -- then he'd really have a winner on his hands IMHO. |
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I find that the "miniMail" widget (http://macupdate.com/info.php/id/19776) is more useful for this sort of thing, and definitely works under Tiger. Of course, the best option is to simply set up your own built-into-the-OS SMTP server using a tool like Postfix Enabler, only $10 shareware: http://macupdate.com/info.php/id/13237 But if you're, for example, at work and need to send a quick message out under your "personal" address, MiniMail does the trick quite nicely. BTW, if you're just relaying telephone contacts via email, take a look at Wywo: http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/15749 Still works! |
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If Java=Crap to you, you haven't tried ThinkFree Office. I'm NOT a big Java fan -- far from it, actually -- but ThinkFree Office runs extremely well and has been a really solid performer for me. Yes, it's slower than MS Office, but only somewhat -- so I trade a little speed for freedom from MS's monopoly. I trade a tiny bit of functionality (very little) for a $50 pricetag. Yes, I think ThinkFree Office is a better value for most people than MS Office. Power users, maybe not so much, but "regular folks"? Definitely. |
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To the fellow who said "Two words: WIRE TAP" and to the other fellow who said "Three words: Audio. Hijack. Pro.": Yes, Wiretap is free (from http://www.ambrosiasw.com) and nifty. However, it does not do what iRecordMusic does -- Wiretap records to AIFF files only, which can be quite unwieldy for long recordings. And yes, Audio Hijack Pro ($37) is in some ways niftier than iRecordMusic, but also costs considerably more -- nearly double! If a person wants a CHEAP way to easily record radio streams from a variety of sources directly into MP3 or MP4/AAC format, it seems to me that iRecordMusic is quite the viable option. There may be similar products that are even more well-suited to the purpose (I don't pretend to know every product on the market), but used in conjuction with Steam I find iRecordMusic to be an economical and sensible option, whereas Wiretap and AHP (fine products that they are) don't quite fit my needs/budget. Slamming one product to promote another seems needlessly childish to me. Oh, and BTW -- Wiretap is ONE WORD, not two. FYI. |
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WE'RE NOT WORTHY! WE'RE NOT WORTHY! Thanks, man. This is awesome. |
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I'm just downloading the new version now, so I can't yet comment on that, but just wanted to say that I think the developer has hit on a GOOD way to allow users to fully explore and try the product prior to registering, while not leaving it so nobody will bother to register. A good balance. Since I had a few (minor) issues with the last version, I'm looking forward to trying this one out on my Blogger account. It's a good program, just needed some polishing and extras. [review edited to remove star rating since the writer hadn't yet downloaded the app -MU Admin] |
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Bless 'im!! |
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I rely on this product as the cornerstone of my backup strategy. Send Mike Bombich the five bucks already -- he's more than earned it! |
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I'm a little confused about why someone would use this software instead of the built-in MP3CD burner in iTunes. I'm particularly skeptical that someone would need to use this over iTunes to the point where they would pay the suggested $20. |
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I was having trouble with iChat the last time I tried Fire. I'll give it another go, but I need to keep iChat around for AV chats. |
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Clean, simple -- and I love that it can (optionally) send the results to the author for comparison. But without ANY kind of reference to let me know how well -- or poorly -- my setup compares to other machines (different, similar, or "on average"), I'd have to say the thing is fairly meaningless at present. I'm sure the compiled "sent in" scores will eventually be incorporated, so for now just imagine you're doing your bit for the Mac community. It only takes a few seconds. |
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Ben has created a great fax program. It's not for "professional" faxcasters and/or spammers (thank goodness!) but for "the rest of us" it meets our needs perfectly and doesn't require a manual. This is the future of shareware -- building a little onto the back of open-source software and charging a little (very reasonable) for the extra convenience. Way to go Ben! One little thing I would like to see added is Address Book integration. |
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