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Real Name:Varen Swaab

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Love Calculator Pro 1.5

Type: Comments

Date: 29 Jun 2008 18:10

What a great idea for software. I'd never use it having been married for 10 years but if I was a teenage girl this would be fun.

Resourcery 1.0

Type: Comments

Date: 12 Jun 2008 13:06

So far it's very bare bones but the paradigm is clean and useful and potentially fills a void left open by other types of apps....the ability to 'watch' passively and view their contents dynamically rather than having to "add" a file or folder to a project manually. Entourage gets this right, Daylite, Contactizer and many others don't do this well.

FTPit Pro 2.0b4

Type: Comments

Date: 9 Jun 2008 19:16

I agree, without sFTP it's useless to me....I won't even bother downloading it.

I could use something like this but it has to connect to my server.

Chandler 0.7.6

Type: Comments

Date: 6 Jun 2008 01:26

I like the idea of this...but the application won't load for me and is making my computer run very slow.

Adobe GoLive 9.0

Type: Comments

Date: 2 Jun 2008 13:33

Yes, I have tried ebay and a few other places but that version was never sold as a boxed version, only as a download, so the chances of it ending up on ebay are very slim. I'm really bummed by this...if you can help me find a copy I'd be most appreciative!!

Adobe GoLive 9.0

Type: Comments

Date: 2 Jun 2008 13:22

Since Adobe so abruptly discontinued Golive 9 I'm left without an upgrade. If anyone is willing to sell me a copy of their Golive 9 I'd be willing to discuss it. Please leave me a message on iSawYou.com and we can talk about it.

Apple Mac OS X 10.5.1

Type: Review

Date: 18 Nov 2007 00:11

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I've been using computers since 1988 and Mac OS since 1995 when I switched to Apple out of frustration with Windows and the desire for a more reliable and better designed OS. Leopard is the very first operating system upgrade from Apple (and I count about 8 major upgrades since I started using a Mac) that I regret loading and wish I could easily revert back to the previous release.

I'm not a lightweight user. I develop web applications, write and manage large amounts of data for a business and make extensive use of my computer for personal pursuits including managing images, authoring quicktime movies and various databases I keep for myself.

After several days experience I decided Leopard sucks. It's buggy, it's ugly and it fails to improve, in any meaningful way, my Tiger experience. I find the new 'features' such as Spaces to be crippled versions of the real thing that's been around for years. Apple is so intent on making things 'simple' that it's losing touch with experienced users who are looking for fleshed out, rich features.

The interface changes are silly. The semi-transparent menu bar is a waste of processing power and is distracting. The new dock is child-like eye candy that would appeal only to a teenager (sorry teenagers) and serves no purpose or benefit from the previous dock; it's not even attractive. I dislike the changes in the finder and find it actually more difficult to use and don't even get me started on the insipid dock pop-up folders. They're useless compared to being able to simply drag a folder into the dock and navigating a nested hierarchy as I could in Tiger. Now I'm hampered with crippled eye candy when before I could work.

I've also had severe application failures. Rock solid applications such as BBEdit, Mail.app or Flash are now quitting on me several times a day. I have broken icons, failed launches, Safari freezes and other non-specific abnormalities are occurring. Standard troubleshooting and repair utilities are not working.

If this is the future of Mac OS I'm seriously considering other options. Steve, I was once your biggest fan and an major advocate for Apple. I've personally converted a dozen people to Macs but with this direction you're losing me.

Relationship 1.0b2

Type: Comments

Date: 5 Jan 2007 13:22

I'm locked out of trying this because I tried the previous beta version and now the new beta won't start because it says my "trial has expired".

This type of heavy-handed registration is bad enough when applied to shipping versions of products, but when applied to beta releases it makes the developer look absolutely foolish.

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