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About Chris
I'm a Mac enthusiast and product-slash-experience designer/marketer/open web advocate at Citizen Agency.
Real Name:Chris Messina 
Homepage:http://factoryjoe.com/ 
Last Login:16 Feb 2009 17:05
Posts:43
Reviews:4
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Hawkeye
Jan 22 2009

FACTORYJOE  It does seem like there's still life there as they just released v1.2v120.  
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iFuntastic
Sep 5 2008

FACTORYJOE  $20? Really?  
(Version 6.0b3)

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Iconeer
Jul 6 2008

FACTORYJOE  I'd recommend Apple's free Icon Composer instead (free with Developer Tools).  
(Version 2.0.1)

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Speed Download Lite
Jun 16 2008

FACTORYJOE  I agree that Speed Download has been in continuous development and that's a good thing. Remember, I *paid* for Speed Download! The problem is that I can't afford to keep paying for upgrades when major releases come out as often as they seem to, especially when the majority of changes seem cosmetic, and haven't really added much additional value given my basic workflow.

I still like Speed Download, it's just that Leech is a lot lighter and simpler and meets my needs; it's unclear whether this Lite version of SD is really "lite" after all, or just a rushed version to take on Leech.  
(Version 1.0)

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Iris
Jun 16 2008

FACTORYJOE  Exactly. Why wouldn't you check to see if other apps of the same name existed previously?  
(Version 1.0)

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Speed Download Lite
Jun 16 2008

FACTORYJOE  I bought Speed Download ages ago and even paid for the 4 to 5 version upgrade. They put out far too many updates to warrant continuing to pay for upgrades though.

I've switched to Leech. Simple, sweet, priced right.  
(Version 1.0)

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Speed Download Lite
Jun 16 2008

YAZSOFT SUPPORT  As a user, I would feel a lot more comfortable when a software I invest in is continuously updated. To me, it shows serious dedication on behalf of the developer. Speed Download is regularly tested by over 100 beta testers to ensure optimal performance and compatibility. As the internet is continuously changing, we adapt to ensure that you (the user) doesn't feel a thing. Updates are always FREE and our R&D is continuously growing to accommodate the growing needs of our users.  
(Version 1.0)

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Speed Download Lite
Jun 16 2008

FACTORYJOE  I agree that Speed Download has been in continuous development and that's a good thing. Remember, I *paid* for Speed Download! The problem is that I can't afford to keep paying for upgrades when major releases come out as often as they seem to, especially when the majority of changes seem cosmetic, and haven't really added much additional value given my basic workflow.

I still like Speed Download, it's just that Leech is a lot lighter and simpler and meets my needs; it's unclear whether this Lite version of SD is really "lite" after all, or just a rushed version to take on Leech.  
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Speed Download Lite
Jun 16 2008

YAZSOFT SUPPORT  Thanks for following up.

Upgrades are commonplace in the industry. Eventually, even Leech (or any other software developer) will charge you (unless the developer decides he wants to work for free, which is fine).

The Speed Download 5 upgrade has undergone A LOT of under the hood changes. The entire download mechanism has been re-done and almost all features of the applications have been beefed up. Visually, there's a lot of nice changes but the true change is under the hood and there is a lot more coming (free to all registered 5.x users).

An important note is that the upgrade is OPTIONAL. The previous version SD4, is still supported.

Speed Download Lite was born out of heavy demand from our user base that felt they need not pay for features they don't use and not because of any other software. The Lite version has been stripped of everything but the download manager. However, if you have SD5, you can easily turn it into SD Lite. Simply email us directly.

Thanks again for all your feedback. We're always hear to listen :-)

Johnny  
(Version 1.0)

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Caffeine
Jan 24 2008

FACTORYJOE  Yay! I'm personally super-thrilled to see the new coffee cup icon in the Menubar. So, +1 from me!  
(Version 1.0.1)

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1Password
Oct 11 2007

FACTORYJOE  I couldn't more strongly recommend 1Password. This is such an excellent and useful application. Buy two!!  
(Version 2.4.13)

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DOT.iPhone
Aug 31 2007

FACTORYJOE  That is one long-ass finger in that photo!!  
(Version 1.0)

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Mental Case
Aug 13 2007

FACTORYJOE  I saw an early version of this and missed it on MacZOT... I'll give this a spin and see how it does fare alongside Yojimbo...  
(Version 1.0.1)

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XsTrimmer
Aug 8 2007

FACTORYJOE  Choice is good, certainly. I'm in favor of that -- and I'm in favor of folks using projects like this to learn programming and so on. I guess I came across a little curmudgeonly because I this doesn't necessarily add anything new to the existing offerings.  
(Version 1.0)

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XsTrimmer
Aug 8 2007

FACTORYJOE  So is this another free version of an existing piece of commercial software? In this case, Xslimmer? Ironically, aren't you also then competing with the free and open source Monolingual?  
(Version 1.0)

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XsTrimmer
Aug 8 2007

NEOX  Are not choices always a good thing? I am a big fan of xSlimmer and this does look similar. However I do not like Monologue, as I have seen it mess things up too.   
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XsTrimmer
Aug 8 2007

FACTORYJOE  Choice is good, certainly. I'm in favor of that -- and I'm in favor of folks using projects like this to learn programming and so on. I guess I came across a little curmudgeonly because I this doesn't necessarily add anything new to the existing offerings.  
(Version 1.0)

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XsTrimmer
Aug 8 2007

NMR  not affiliated with xslimmer. just an alternative for you guyz free version does all xslimmer does besides some things that might not be so important to me.  
(Version 1.0)

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XsTrimmer
Aug 9 2007

FENGSHUIFACTS  Hm..Nmr didn't say they had used this project to 'learn' how to develop a program don't know if that's what you meant.

I noticed XsTrimmer is different. XsTrimmer has a re-constructive backup, which is a terrific feature to offer. Probably what makes XsTrimmer unique is you can trim all your universal binaries without the 50mb limit.  
(Version 1.0)

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XsTrimmer
Aug 9 2007

ALJUK  @factoryjoe - I don't get it... what exactly is your point? It sounds like you'd rather pay for a commercial app than get the same functionality for free. And are you quite sure you understand the meaning of "irony"? lol

While you're at it, check the reviews for monolingual - they're horrendous.  
(Version 1.0)

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PackRat
Aug 7 2007

FACTORYJOE  This is really tempting, but is a WebKit app really worth $15 let alone $25? I guess I just don't use Backpack enough...  
(Version 1.3)

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ShoveBox
Aug 6 2007

FACTORYJOE  For the money, I think Yojimbo is a much richer solution for snippets and the like.  
(Version 1.0)

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MyTunesRSS
Aug 2 2007

FACTORYJOE  This is a really well-designed and good looking application. I've considered buying this before... this might be the time I do.  
(Version 3.0.3)

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Liger
Jul 29 2007
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FACTORYJOE  I've been using this theme since it first came out and love it. 1.6 adds some nice features and cleanup, but the Dock hack is a little odd and uncomfortable. Otherwise, this thing is the closest you can get to Leopard without breaking the NDA!  
(Version 1.6)

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Liger
Jul 29 2007

FACTORYJOE  You do need to have ShapeShifter installed first to use this theme. It won't work without it.  
(Version 1.6)

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Jul 9 2007

FACTORYJOE  I guess deals are a good thing, but some credit to MacHeist and MacZOT for inspiration would be appropriate. If that kind of honesty were offered I might have been interested in buying, though I really would prefer apps like Transmit over Fetch and Fission over Amadeus... that said, Cocktail and Little Snitch are great apps and make this deal very attractive.  
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iPhone Application Widget
Jun 30 2007

FACTORYJOE  So basically just links to web apps?  
(Version 1.0)

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Color Schemer Studio
Jun 19 2007

FACTORYJOE  This is a fantastic application. It does a great job of being a generally useful color collecting application and then makes it easier to pull down colors from its website and get them into Photoshop, Illustrator or wherever else. This is really a great deal.  
(Version 1.5.2)

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MemoryMiner
Jun 9 2007
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FACTORYJOE  I'd like to contradict and raise the rating of this app... I actually find it very innovative and great way to collect data and photos and associate them with people.

Check out this video:

http://memoryminer.com/software/video.html

It's a great demonstration of how to make the most of this app.  
(Version 1.52)

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Yep
Jun 6 2007

FACTORYJOE  Yeah, I really like Yep. Much better than Yojimbo in terms of actual document management.  
(Version 1.6.2)

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Yep
Jun 6 2007

FACTORYJOE  This is another great deal!  
(Version 1.6.2)

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Paperless
May 31 2007

FACTORYJOE  Whoa. Total crash on startup:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/factoryjoe/522709858/

Bummer.  
(Version 1.1.2)

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ZigVersion
May 28 2007

FACTORYJOE  On the surface it seems like a really nice, simple GUI for SVN. Hard to say how it compares with svnX from intitally playing with it, but it does seem stable, well made and the View Changes interface is quite good.

I don't think I would pay $99 for it, and $59 still seems steep. If it were going for maybe $39 I'd bite -- as well as if I knew how active the developer was in maintaining and improving the application. I've got 11 hours left until the promo expires; I'll decide by then.  
(Version 1.1.2)

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May 14 2007

FACTORYJOE  Why not just use Bonjour over iChat?  
(Version 1.0)

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Charmas
May 9 2007

FACTORYJOE  I've been enjoying Typeset lately... not sure what this offers over that.  
(Version 2.0)

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Gmail Browser
Mar 3 2007

FACTORYJOE  I think that's a problem with Gmail and not this app... after all, it's the exact same experience that you get when you just open Gmail in Safari...  
(Version 0.8)

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Gmail Browser
Mar 3 2007

FACTORYJOE  The implications are no different than if you use Gmail in your regular web browser. All this app does is open a separate instance of the rendering engine -- and only loads the Gmail URL.  
(Version 0.8)

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Gmail Browser
Mar 2 2007
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FACTORYJOE  I've used WebMail.app for a long time and I'm very happy to see that Ben's picked up the project and advanced it. I'd prefer that he also made his efforts open source, since the basic functionality he added would be useful for any WebKit project:

http://webkit.pbwiki.com  
(Version 0.75)

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Valet
Feb 1 2007

FACTORYJOE  More interface ideas are always a good thing, but it seems like this could have been built as a plugin for Quicksilver -- even one that you charge for.

I'll certainly give it a shot, but Quicksilver is actually pretty straight-forward to setup, so saying that Valet is "nearly zero configuration" isn't much of a selling point.

Also, I'd contend that, ignoring the attention-leveraging bit, Todos provides a more straight forward install and use.

I'll still give this one a go, but I doubt I'll shell out $25 for it.   
(Version 1.0)

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TvTube
Jan 12 2007

FACTORYJOE  Hmmm, I think Tubular might be better. Though it's for YouTube only...  
(Version 1.12)

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SiteCapture
Jan 7 2007

FACTORYJOE  While I'm all about choice... and I generally think this app looks cool, how is it better than Paparazzi!?  
(Version 1.0)

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SiteCapture
Jan 8 2007

FJOACHIM  Well, one main feature is the processing of multiple pages at once. Additionally, SiteCapture has an Automator action which allows you to post-process the images in any way you want very easily.  
(Version 1.0)

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Dec 4 2006

FACTORYJOE  There's at least 3 or 4 of these app deleters now that followed AppZapper. It doesn't really matter if you make it free; there's already folks doing that. If you can make it better -- all the power to you -- I'm all for choice.

But when it seems that this one is just reimplementing AppZapper and making it free to spite AppZapper, that just seems like a waste of time.

If you go open source, well, maybe there's something to be said for that.  
(Version 1.0b)

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Desky
Nov 15 2006

FACTORYJOE  This seems similar to DeskDecal... do you have support for multiple desktops? That's the one problem I had with DeskDecal.

http://www.mistatree.org/www.mistatree.org/Freeware/DeskDecal/Index.html  
(Version 1.1)

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AppDelete
Oct 26 2006

FACTORYJOE  Totally - choice is good. I already have a license to AppZapper, but I do take your point -- competition is a good thing! ;)

Good luck with AppDelete -- I'll definitely watch it's development.  
(Version 1.0)

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AppDelete
Oct 25 2006

FACTORYJOE  Besides being free, I'm not sure what the purpose of this application is with solutions like AppZapper already out there. If it's simply to offer choice, ok, I can accept that -- but I do hope that it wasn't done to solve a problem that's already been solved.  
(Version 1.0)

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AppDelete
Oct 25 2006

REGGIE ASHWORTH  Hi Factory Joe!

This is Reggie the Developer...thanks so much for your input. You could say it's to offer a free choice! :D Yes I'm aware of the "other" apps, but if you're willing give AppDelete a chance? It's may not be very flashy, but give it a try and see how well it finds the associated items. You can contact me anytime. Thanks again!

Sincerely,

Reggie Ashworth  
(Version 1.0)

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AppDelete
Oct 25 2006

JOEL MUELLER  It's funny because we often have people reporting issues with RapidWrite crashing MacUpdate Desktop on their computers. And the people that email in always say they used AppZapper to remove RW, but Desktop is still crashing.

This is because AppZapper never does get all of the files for RW. So choice is good. And even AppZapper has a ways to go in being able to uninstall things.  
(Version 1.0)

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AppDelete
Oct 26 2006

FACTORYJOE  Totally - choice is good. I already have a license to AppZapper, but I do take your point -- competition is a good thing! ;)

Good luck with AppDelete -- I'll definitely watch it's development.  
(Version 1.0)

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Container
Oct 9 2006

FACTORYJOE  Ah ha -- well, that's good to know. Sorry I missed that!  
(Version 2.0)

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Container
Aug 6 2006

FACTORYJOE  You can get similar functionality from QuickSilver's free shelf module. Not sure why I'd pay $15 for this.  
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Container
Oct 9 2006

STUDLAR  You do not have to pay anything. The application has no limitations, it will continue to work forever (or at least close). You only need to pay if you want to.  
(Version 2.0)

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Container
Oct 9 2006

FACTORYJOE  Ah ha -- well, that's good to know. Sorry I missed that!  
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Radio Days
Jan 15 2005
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CHRIS MESSINA  This looks like a great idea, but I can imagine that hearing "That was..." or whatever after every song would become pretty annoying after a couple hours (if not a couple songs!).

I would love to see you compile a list of DJ "sayings" that DJ's use to announce songs and then draw from this list at random when announcing songs. You could even vary the amount of information spoken, sometimes listing just the artist and track, other times listing the album, year or whatever other information is available.  
(Version 1.0)

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Radio Days
Jan 15 2005

KARL BECKER  A very good idea. Have a list of sayings that the user can editable, with little + and - buttons to add or subtract introductions.

And if a song from the same album comes up two (or more) times in a row, then the album would not have to be said each time. Same with the artist.

I hope Apple puts in functionality like this into iTunes once Tiger comes out - it's a no-brainer for usefulness, and with new voices in Tiger it could be really nice.  
(Version 1.0)

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FinderIconCM
Dec 2 2004
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CHRIS MESSINA  I love this little app... It's so useful and unobtrusive. Even with CandyBar installed, I still love having the flexibility to use FinderIconCM whenever I want to maintain just a few icons.  
(Version 2.3)

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IP
Nov 14 2004
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CHRIS MESSINA  You can get similar functionality from QuickSilver simply by installing the Extra Scripts Module. When you launch, just type "get" and look for the Get IP script. It will copy it into a new QS window which you can then email, copy, paste, etc.   
(Version 4.3)

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IP
Nov 15 2004

ANONYMOUS  However, it won't mail the IP number itself.  
(Version 4.3)

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Speed Download
Apr 2 2004
****½

FACTORY JOE  For a download application, it's actually quite nice. I wasn't convinced that I should plunk down the money for it during my trial period and found that I was getting along fine without it... but once I found out about the ability to automatically download serially numbered files (file01.zip, file02.zip,...), I realized how valuable this app could be. Since then I find myself using the app daily without any problems. I miss the MacShareware integration from 2.3.2 but hopefully the upcoming 3.0 version will have similar functionality.  
(Version 2.3.4)

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Speed Download
Apr 2 2004

ANONYMOUS  "I miss the MacShareware integration from 2.3.2 but hopefully the upcoming 3.0 version will have similar functionality."

no, it won't... according to the developers.  
(Version 2.3.4)

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