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Real Name:Dennis Des Chene 
Last Login:6 Sep 2008 03:23
Posts:8
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MediaWiki
Jan 24 2008

DDCHENE  If the commenter means that "camelCase" is automatically converted to links in MediaWiki, that's not true. There's an option that forces camel case to produce links, but it can be turned off, as it is at wikipedia itself. So you can write about iPods all you want.  
(Version 1.11.1)

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Media Catalog
Aug 10 2007

DDCHENE  The registration number is keyed to your email, not your name. I wasted a few minutes figuring this out. Otherwise, the program looks OK.  
(Version 3.7.1)

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QuickPopUp X
Jul 17 2007

DDCHENE  QuickPopup is easy to use, no-frills instant message software. One serious limitation for some people is that it knows nothing about unicode. Characters other than Latin-1 are not displayed.   
(Version 4.5)

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BananAlbumCreator
Mar 20 2007

DDCHENE  Here's a tip: Banana Album Creator makes several folders and files. When it asks for the "output" folder, create a new folder for all this stuff. If you put it in a folder that already has items in it (like "Documents"), the result will be confusing.  
(Version 5.1)

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Tasty
Feb 12 2007

DDCHENE  Doesn’t understand Unicode. Two-byte characters are replaced by gibberish.  
(Version 1.0b)

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Tasty
Feb 13 2007

THERMO GLOBAL NUCLEAR WAR  Hey, I'll try and have that sorted soon. I'll keep you posted.  
(Version 1.0b)

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Graph Paper Maker
Jul 24 2006
****½

DDCHENE  A simple app (one dialog box) that does just what it says. Suggestions: (1) the ability to make every nth line different (in weight or color); (2) 4 values (top, bottom, left, right) for margin instead of just 1.  
(Version 1.0.1)

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Cocoalicious
Feb 13 2005

DDCHENE  Nicely done. But not useful for non-English-speaking users. When you enter unicode characters like “ (“) directly in the info fields the result is "(null)" in all the fields. If you enter the escape codes all you get is the literal escape code. deli.cio.us itself can handle unicode -- that's not the problem.  
(Version 1.0b31)

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Cocoalicious
Mar 3 2005

BUZZ ANDERSEN  This problem should be fixed in b32.  
(Version 1.0b32)

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Nisus Writer Express
Nov 25 2004
**½..

DDCHENE  I've been using Nisus Writer and now Nisus Express for fifteen years or more. For a long time I used Framemaker for design and long documents, Nisus mainly for text-munging and documents that didn't need much layout. Nisus was quirky (the graphics layer never quite worked) but it did some things so much better than the competition that I put up with the quirks. Discontinuous selection did and still does set Nisus apart.

The new Nisus is not ready for serious work. It doesn't display properly, it hangs, it's clumsy in its handling of styles (why can't more than one style at a time be deleted, for example, which would be a boon in cleaning out unused styles in Word docs?). The Nisus macro language has disappeared. Perl is supposed to take its place. It doesn't. Try sorting paragraphs with styles and unicode. The result? No styles, all the unicode deleted. Useless. You can't compensate with Applescript very easily because the program is not recordable and there's no support to speak of beyond the standard text suite.

Serious wordprocessing requires "keep on same page", widow & orphan suppression, date and time stamps -- to mention a few things conspicuously lacking that Nisus Classic did reasonably well.

I'll use Nisus to work with Word documents and cross my fingers in hopes that it doesn't hang. Otherwise I'll use Tex-Edit for munging and put up with Indesign when I need layout.  
(Version 2.1)

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