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About George
Freelance cartoon illustrator/designer and Mac shareware junkie.
Real Name:George Coghill 
Homepage:http://coghillcartooning.com 
Posts:117
Last Login:28 May 2008 04:43
Recent Downloads:
  1. Organized
  2. Smart Scroll
  3. Squid
  4. PlugINCool
  5. Today
  6. WeatherDock
  7. The Weather Channel Widget
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User Reviews
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Type: Comments
Date: 4 Jul 2008 09:00

Excellent widget! A few suggestions:

• The ability to select which calendars appear in the Events tab. Currently it's one or all, would like to select just a few.

• The ability to tint events with the color label used in iCal for the calendar.

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Type: Comments
Date: 1 Jul 2008 18:47

I do believe the issue is with Apple, and it was not fixed in the 10.5.4 update this week. If it was Adobe's fault, it was also not fixed in this update as I still see it here on the MacBook.

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Type: Comments
Date: 26 Jun 2008 17:31

I'm surprised plain ol' FTP support isn't in there.

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Type: Review
Date: 25 Jun 2008 02:11
Features:5 Stars
Ease of Use:5 Stars
Value:5 Stars
Stability:5 Stars

Can't believe I haven't submitted a review for what is my most favorite widget.

Perfect, in every way. To me, it exemplifies what a Dashboard widget should be. And free on top of it all? You really should donate if you haven't already.

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Type: Comments
Date: 23 Jun 2008 20:59

I suppose it's one of those things where if you can't even find a full feature list on the apps own webpage, you start to wonder if the app itself might be unfinished. Also might make one wonder about support issues.

I've demoed OmniGrowl in the past and it's a very nice application. But had I stumbled across it outside of MacUpdate, I might not even have given it another look.

Something as simple as a changelog, a basic overview of features and at least a full list of the main features added in the newest version might be a bit more reassuring. A screen shot or two would also help.

Hope this doesn't come across as negative, it's purely constructive criticism. The app itself seems great, it's just the "packaging" that might turn some people off.

Just the reply from the developer bumps this up a notch in my book, sometimes I don't even get replies from (or get very delayed responses from) devs to which I've paid money for licenses and contacted for support.

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Type: Comments
Date: 23 Jun 2008 09:45

I agree on the website comment, the MacUpdate page is far more informative than the developers own webpage for OmniGrowl.

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Type: Comments
Date: 5 Jun 2008 10:48

I do not use the software, and honestly do not even know what it is for.

However, it sounds like a niche tool for a professional, and the corny name - coupled with the price tag - would make me leery if it were an application that I was interested in.

Just a bit of constructive criticism. Maybe I was a bit harsh.

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Type: Comments
Date: 5 Jun 2008 10:29

Developer, please do yourself and the rest of us a favor and rename this application.

The pun would have been corny even back when it was relevant.

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Type: Comments
Date: 29 May 2008 12:50

Nevermind, I think another stalled widget was causing Dashboard to act weird. This is working great now.

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Type: Review
Date: 29 May 2008 12:49
Features:4 Stars
Ease of Use:5 Stars
Value:5 Stars
Stability:5 Stars

Perfect battery status replacement for the menubar, this is how it should be. And works great with my APC UPS/battery backup as well.

About the only thing I could suggest for this app would be to have the option to use Growl for updates - switching to battery/charger, fully charged, low battery warnings. And when the battery hits low enough to go to sleep mode, the warning window could be an HUD-style window (or Growl - I can't recall if there needs to be user input). Currently I use a widget for these notifications.

But as-is, still excellent.

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Type: Review
Date: 29 May 2008 12:42
Features:5 Stars
Ease of Use:5 Stars
Value:5 Stars
Stability:5 Stars

Excellent utility. Having the color icon indicating charging status is perfect. And having Growl support is great too.

I use this in conjunction with Slim Battery Monitor: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/14083/slimbatterymonitor

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Type: Comments
Date: 28 May 2008 18:41

Probably the fastest "update after an Apple update broke an app" I have ever seen! Smart Scroll rules.

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Type: Comments
Date: 28 May 2008 04:45

Great app, one limitation: the icons in the list view don't match the standard Leopard list view folders. I am using a standard Leopard folder PSD template, and all looks great except list view/column view/sidebar icons.

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Type: Review
Date: 27 May 2008 19:03
Features:5 Stars
Ease of Use:5 Stars
Value:5 Stars
Stability:5 Stars

Stickies on steroids. Pretty handy little application. Love the stickies with writing/sketching with a graphics tablet, very cool.

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Type: Comments
Date: 27 May 2008 00:18

Because I don't live in one of the major cities, I didn't test it out further after noting this aspect.

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Type: Comments
Date: 22 May 2008 00:05

Only searches the main Cragslist cities, and no option to search all cities.

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Type: Troubleshooting
Date: 21 May 2008 22:22

Can't seem to get this to work on 10.5.2 Intel MacPro.

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Type: Comments
Date: 21 May 2008 04:04

This looks cool, but I am trying to determine of one can change the color for just a single, user-created folder.

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Type: Comments
Date: 14 May 2008 13:12

Cyberduck is just great (I even donated), but now that I have two FTP apps with dual-pane browsing (YummyFTP & ForkLift), I can't go back to single-pane FTP apps.

Still, Cyberduck is a phenomenal free FTP app for OS X.

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Type: Comments
Date: 13 May 2008 00:58

I cannot get Times to work properly on the MacBook. Hangs when initial feed gathering takes place, and after relaunch I see feeds in the main bar, but cannot drag to a page. Works fine on the MacPro.

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Type: Comments
Date: 13 May 2008 00:26

A few thoughts, all of which have been submitted to the dev via Times' feedback form:

- more keyboard shortcuts/navigation is needed.

- a way to mark articles as read/unread is needed. Articles should be auto-marked as read once one reads it.

- pages & individual feeds need a count indicator for unread/total feeds, both in the Pages bar and per-feed. This assumes the dev will implement marking stories as read at some point.

Interesting app, and I am willing to give it a chance as my 'light' newsreader. I use NetNewsWire for the heavy lifting. Unfortunately though I think my demo will expire as this app matures through the 1.x stage, and I may not get to test any added features like the ones mentioned above.

For such a brand-new app, perhaps an expiring beta might have been a better route? Seems this app will have some growth spurts in the coming weeks.

With all the free newsreaders out there now, I would want to put this through the paces before plunking down cash for it.

Looks great, but whether it will stand the test of time as far as readability/convenience, remains to be tested.

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Type: Comments
Date: 9 May 2008 21:38

It might be $20, but it not only does what it says, it has a lot of great features beyond just a preview.

$10 and I would have already bought it, but I find more and more that it would be really handy after demoing this and might bite the bullet anyways.

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Type: Troubleshooting
Date: 1 May 2008 02:14

After I installed PlugSuit, Keywurl no longer works. Other plugins for Safari are fine. Any ideas of what could be wrong?

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Type: Comments
Date: 1 May 2008 01:59

So does this replace the need to have SIMBL installed? I am having probs with a specific plugin (Keywurl) on the MacBook, but not on the MacPro. Not sure what needs to go.

Especially confusing since the developer's other app, Afloat, installs it's plugin in the SMBL plugins folder. So far it seems you need the SIMBL helper plugins (Library->Application Support->SIMBL->Plugins) to remain installed for them to work.

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Type: Troubleshooting
Date: 25 Apr 2008 12:56

This new version (2.1) is acting all weird on 10.5.2 - keeps "Quitting" even tho prefs panel says it's enabled. And the sync with .Mac is back to having all sorts of problems. Noticing this on the MacBook, haven't yet paid attention to the MacPro.

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Type: Review
Date: 11 Apr 2008 13:05
Features:5 Stars
Ease of Use:5 Stars
Value:5 Stars
Stability:5 Stars

I've only just demoed this a short while, but it works really fluidly and seems to be a perfect little application for mind-mapping (which admittedly I don't know much about). This seems like it will come in handy.

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Type: Hint/Tip
Date: 12 Mar 2008 10:06

Take a look at Text Expander or TypeIt4Me, they both do this.

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Type: Review
Date: 4 Mar 2008 09:44
Features:5 Stars
Ease of Use:5 Stars
Value:5 Stars
Stability:5 Stars

From the design, to the functionality, to the compactness without sacrificing features, this is a pretty clever and sharp-looking timer widget.

Nice job!

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Type: Comments
Date: 25 Feb 2008 12:02

Been looking for something like this for years now, but seems I need to upgrade to 10.5 before trying this out. Glad to see this available though.

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Type: Comments
Date: 21 Jan 2008 21:32

I want to like Shovebox, but some missing features and small interface/usage oversights have so far prevented me from doing so.

- Desperately needs a preview pane.

- Images dropped in via Safari do not retain the image's filename.

- Not enough keyboard shortcuts

- Needs Smart Folders, or at least the default filetype, label & flagged items smart folders.

- Not essential, but .Mac sync would be nice.

I had emailed the dev about some of these issues, and he seemed a good guy and open to suggestions, but I have yet to see anything implemented.

Shovebox is almost there, but the workflow, while I was demoing the app, just got in my way. And I think this is just the kind of app where the surface simplicity should be belied by a powerful, well thought out and intuitive workflow behind the scenes.

Hoping for a revamped 1.2 release. This app has promise.

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Type: Comments
Date: 14 Jan 2008 10:37

Not sure what this offers over the free and more fully featured The Unarchiver: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/22774/the-unarchiver

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Type: Comments
Date: 13 Jan 2008 15:09

7.8 MB of space for this application? Yikes.

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Type: Comments
Date: 11 Jan 2008 15:32

Interarchy looks like it could be pretty slick (and I love the UI) but the lack of a dual-pane file browser kills it for me. I'll have to give it another go, but once you go dual-pane, it's hard to go without that feature.

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Type: Comments
Date: 10 Jan 2008 13:22

I like Wallet (paid up a year or so ago) but the support is terrible.

I have a import issue (imports don't merge, they only overwrite), and two emails to the developers have gone unanswered. I also sent an email back when I first registered (for what I can't recall), and never got a reply to that one either.

Part of my enthusiasm for shareware is access to the developer. Not even replying to an email is just plain poor business, especially when you have nice software.

Wallet: good; Waterfall Software: not so good.

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Type: Comments
Date: 10 Jan 2008 09:56

If one compares other screen capture utilities, the pricing is fair and this app is the most OS X-ish of them all.

If you compare in general to shareware apps in general, the pricing is again fair.

Not sure what the big deal is here on the pricing.

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Type: Review
Date: 29 Dec 2007 20:44
Features:4 Stars
Ease of Use:5 Stars
Value:5 Stars
Stability:5 Stars

Nice little sketching/doodling application. Works fine with the Wacom, and in contrast to the previous review I found everything to display smoothly.

Nice basic options for the canvas: plain, transparent, lined paper and grid.

One thing that would really make this killer: in the transparent canvas mode, there should be an option to capture the screen area behind the window (including any marks if you started to draw before capturing the screen).

The Crop/Resize to window dimensions feature is nice, but it bottoms out at approximately 250x250 pixels, can't go smaller than that. This app is more for sketching than image resizing, I am just seeing how far I can take things.

This app is bare bones in it's simplicity, but it seems that is exactly the developer's intention.

It would be nice to see the brush size as the cursor. And I am almost thinking that this app might benefit from the HUD style display.

Saved JPG files are decently sized - Photoshop JPG from "Save As…": 40K; PS "Save for Web": 6K, CocoPad JPG: 12K.

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Type: Comments
Date: 24 Dec 2007 14:06

Interesting vector application, kind of like a Pixelmator for vector art.

As the previous comment mentioned, there are some bugs to be worked out, but overall it's a cool little vector art application, and the price is great.

The developer website wouldn't load content for me, and there seems to be no documentation as of this version. Needs some additional keyboard shortcuts as well. Workflow issues need to be addressed, particularly color selection for fills/strokes - especially when creating new objects. There are also some missing (or I just couldn't find) options for the path tool when working on existing paths & anchor point handles.

Nice initial beta release, looking forward to watching this one develop.

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Type: Comments
Date: 11 Dec 2007 11:38

Not really sure how this app improves upon the Finder in column view with previews turned on…

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Type: Comments
Date: 10 Dec 2007 12:50

It's in the Safari prefs, you may need to click the double-arrow at the top right to see it.

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Type: Comments
Date: 2 Dec 2007 22:17

Developers site says it's still free, but to access the System Administrator functions (and to support development) the $12.99 comes into effect.

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Type: Comments
Date: 2 Dec 2007 16:12

Yeah the app looks pretty great, but as a non-scientist I really don't have a use for it. I would love to see future apps from these developers, looks like they're really on the ball.

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Type: Comments
Date: 29 Nov 2007 12:12

Great app, new version looks cool and there seems to be new features to examine just certain folders, which is nice.

Although listed as free, I get a license screen when it launches. Developer site mentions nothing about changing to a paid version. Odd.

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Type: Comments
Date: 29 Nov 2007 09:53

Needs a global keyboard shortcut to activate/deactivate, as well as hide/show the main zoom window. Also an option to allow the zoom viewer to float above all other widows.

Otherwise, pretty handy.

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Type: Comments
Date: 27 Nov 2007 14:59

I had to leave a comment just to note that this app has the best MacUpdate screenshot :)

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Type: Comments
Date: 27 Nov 2007 14:58

This and the ZIP file plugin by the same author (and of course QuickLook in general) is making my hold-off on upgrading to 10.5 more and more difficult.

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Type: Troubleshooting
Date: 27 Nov 2007 05:27

When using the new version, I only get a small rectangle in the top left corner that displays any image information - the rest of the frame is just transparent.

Also, still has previous version issues with resizing - there doesn't seem to be a way to resize/crop efficiently. I would think for a simple widget like this that pinning the resize to the top left corner instead of the center would be the easiest way to go. As it is, multiple unintuitive steps are required to crop images.

Not sure what the arrow in the top right is for (tooltips would be nice) and if I resize this to a certainlarger than default size, the top right arrow and other controls don't work. I am sure this has to do with the image issue mentioned above.

Would love to see all the bugs squashed & features complete - this would abe a top 10 widget if it had a bit more tweaking applied.

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Type: Comments
Date: 25 Nov 2007 22:18

Interesting, thanks for the info. As-is, it's still a great Growl style for basic usage. Thanks again!

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Type: Comments
Date: 22 Nov 2007 21:26

Doesn't Safari 3 already have an undo for closing the last tab, or window? (in Edit & History menus)

I am also not sure what it means to reload the last set of windows you had open when quitting Safari - perhaps when you quit with multiple tabs and ignore the warning about closing a window with multiple tabs?

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Type: Comments
Date: 21 Nov 2007 19:10

The button shows up at about half-size compared to the standard OS X Finder buttons.

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Type: Comments
Date: 21 Nov 2007 19:09

For some reason it appears about half the size of the standard OS X Finder buttons.

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Type: Comments
Date: 19 Nov 2007 09:42

FYI, the Saft homepage is very confusing - it appears outdated, and has no info on version numbers, compatability etc.; however…

Instead go the the Download page [currently here: http://haoli.dnsalias.com/Saft/Download/index.html]

Here you'll find plenty of Saft versions for all flavors of Safari, from Tiger 2.04, Tiger Safari 3 beta, & final, Leopard, etc.

Had I known this, I would have demoed the beta of Safari a while back.

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Type: Comments
Date: 8 Nov 2007 14:34

I'd have to agree with John F. that 1.1 should be features and not bug fixes, but I suppose since we're at 1.02 right now, we should give the dev the benefit of the doubt on this.

I think the main thing about the 10.5 jump is that it happened so close to the 10.5 release - a lot (or all) of the apps the dev mentioned were going 10.5-only haven't really seen any major updates, and I am sure all major Tiger issues have been smoothed out.

TP 1.0 was released I believe right before Leopard, so technically all of his users were running 10.4 when purchasing, so it's only fair to make the 1.0x version right before moving on. I think I recall either here or on the dev's forums that he mentioned the 1.0 release was an in-progress release.

I'm sure he'll make good on getting 1.0x up to snuff with 10.4 before moving on to 1.1 and new features.

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Type: Comments
Date: 8 Nov 2007 10:07

Hmm, I knew nothing of these plans either. I agree it should be made apparent (on the apps main site, possibly here on MU, etc.) that the 1.1 release is planned to be 10.5-only if the dev has already made that decision.

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Type: Comments
Date: 6 Nov 2007 21:00

Developer website is down/gone.

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Type: Troubleshooting
Date: 3 Nov 2007 14:26

Cannot launch installer, get an error message.

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Type: Comments
Date: 2 Nov 2007 02:09

To clarify my previous comment: the "follow mouse" mode needs to be able to be toggled as you are capturing; some times you want the whole screen, sometimes you want it to follow.

The right & left mouse click indicators looked the same to me on this version.

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Type: Comments
Date: 1 Nov 2007 02:31

This is a good price for an app like this. I think it still has some rough edges, but I am purchasing anyways to support further development. It's the closest to-do list app I have found that suits my simple needs.

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Type: Comments
Date: 24 Oct 2007 20:51

This is an excellent app as others have commented, but man is it screaming for .Mac sync to be perfect.

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Type: Comments
Date: 23 Oct 2007 10:05

Seems like a cool app, only briefly demoed but noticed two features that are missing already: need a way to toggle fixed capture mode and "mouse follow" mode; also need a way to preview or view captured vids in the app itself.

I had a glitch on the only capture I did where the video didn't show up until I ran my mouse around the screen cap area, but once it kicked in all worked fine. Didn't notice this until after the movie was generated.

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Type: Comments
Date: 22 Oct 2007 11:20

xGestures is a great utility, but FYI it plays havoc with Adobe software menus when using a Wacom tablet. At least it did on CS1; have not tried with CS3 yet.

It took me a few weeks to figure out what was going on, but once I disabled xGestures completely, the Adobe menu/Wacom wierdness went away.

A shame too, as I was a huge fan of xGestures, but the Wacom takes precedence. I never heard back from the dev on this when I contacted him about it, so I just moved on.

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Type: Comments
Date: 16 Oct 2007 01:16

Actually, just a double-tap on a tab to close would be the most elegant solution.

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Type: Comments
Date: 15 Oct 2007 09:34

Would be great to have the option to triple-click or something else not requiring a modifier key to close tabs - for us laptop users.

And perhaps some users might want to turn off the clipboard auto-fill - I am still testing to see how I like that feature.

Regardless, cool little utility. Thanks!

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Type: Comments
Date: 13 Oct 2007 15:09

Ah I see. Some Growl styles allow you to tweak the color of the priorities, that's what I was thinking you were referring to with priority support.

Thanks for the info. I have no way of testing the priorities fro GrowlHUD, but I am sure they'll look great.

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Type: Review
Date: 13 Oct 2007 03:45
Features:4 Stars
Ease of Use:5 Stars
Value:5 Stars
Stability:5 Stars

Just jumping back in here to give a start rating.

Are the priority setting user-customizable? They don't show up in the Growl pref pane for me.

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Type: Review
Date: 13 Oct 2007 03:44
Features:5 Stars
Ease of Use:5 Stars
Value:5 Stars
Stability:5 Stars

Focus is a great little app for those that want something like this - visual users who like to see the icon instead of plain text showing the user which application is in front.

Glad to see this updated to Intel, thanks!

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Type: Review
Date: 11 Oct 2007 01:39
Features:5 Stars
Ease of Use:5 Stars
Value:5 Stars
Stability:5 Stars

This is excellent software, very handy and indispensable once you start using it. Not only it it constantly being updated, the developers are very quick with support issues as well as very friendly.

One of the best shareware apps I ever bought (and I own quite a bit).

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Type: Comments
Date: 11 Oct 2007 01:36

This is excellent software. Worth it at full price, a must-have with the discount.

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Type: Comments
Date: 10 Oct 2007 23:19

Excellent Growl style!

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Type: Troubleshooting
Date: 25 Sep 2007 15:12

I get a Finder error: Connection not valid (-609) when I click the "Show" icon on my Intel Macbook…

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Type: Comments
Date: 20 Sep 2007 08:49

Demoing this one just from the positive comments.

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Type: Comments
Date: 7 Sep 2007 01:58

Thanks for the option to ignore internal drives!

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Type: Comments
Date: 7 Sep 2007 01:11

Ugh, those brushed metal windows are terrible. Update those things to some smoky bezels.

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Type: Comments
Date: 4 Sep 2007 12:42

Now I am curious to see the old screen shot image…

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Type: Review
Date: 30 Aug 2007 15:26
Features:4 Stars
Ease of Use:5 Stars
Value:5 Stars
Stability:5 Stars

I am surprised to see no recent comments or reviews for this great app.

My favorite feature is just being able to see what I have mounted in the menubar – great for the MacBook when I forget to unmount network drives before heading out. The Growl support is cool as well.

The only feature I would like to see is an option to not show internal drives in the menubar count number, since those I never eject anyways.

And a way to do an "eject all" on just certain categories of disks (DMG, external, etc.) instead of ejecting every single mounted disk/drive. I usually want to eject all the DMGs, but not my external Firewire drive.

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Type: Comments
Date: 28 Aug 2007 12:53

This is kind of cool, I am a menubar junkie as well. I always wished a developer would make some sort of menubar overflow utility, and this is pretty close. I would like to see something where you can choose which items appear on the "main" menubar, and which appear on the "overflow" menubar. Anyways…

Really Menuola is just an application with a single letter for the app name, and no menus – correct?

Dev should consider making the hotkey customizable, as I already use f7 for other applications.

Otherwise kinda handy.

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Type: Comments
Date: 28 Aug 2007 03:44

Excellent, thanks for the clarification!

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Type: Comments
Date: 27 Aug 2007 09:27

Is there any particular reason why this software will only back up the Home folder, or items in the Home folder, and not others? I have a few essential work folders that live on another internal drive and need to back those up as well.

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Type: Comments
Date: 22 Aug 2007 14:11

I could have sworn you could use the option key trick with 6.0

Works with iPhoto too.

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Type: Comments
Date: 22 Aug 2007 03:13

I'd like to get the Safari 2 version as well, not ready to jump into the btea just yet

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Type: Comments
Date: 25 Jul 2007 15:24

it's not just you

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Type: Comments
Date: 24 Jul 2007 14:43

This is a very cool little widget, with one deficiency: when sizing the frame/cropping, the image does not stay put inside the frame - it "kinda" centers. So if you need to crop something, you need to guess the size, reposition the image in the frame, and repeat until you get it right.

Other than that, this thing is just about perfect.

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Type: Comments
Date: 29 Jun 2007 16:51

I am wondering if this will hijack the label colors throughout the system like Labels X did when I demoed it. The screenshots seem to have weird tints to all the colors.

I am sure you can choose your own, but I like to stay with the OS X colors.

Also wondering if the colors will show up in the Sidebar and in list/column view.

Hey Folders was cool, but I think it was chewing up resources on my G4, and of course isn't Universal either.

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Type: Comments
Date: 26 Jun 2007 01:22

Glad to see this on MU promo, the only thing holding me back from purchasing earlier was the price.

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Type: Comments
Date: 5 Jun 2007 22:55

Updating 1Passwd fixed the launch bug for me on my PPC G4. thanks!

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Type: Comments
Date: 15 Apr 2007 03:18

Looks like all has been fixed - new version number on MU and downloads speeds were fine for me now.

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Type: Comments
Date: 15 Apr 2007 03:16

I don't know why Wacom didn't include the new feature in the "What's New" section, but what we now have is a an option for a "scroll click" - you can set a pen button so that when you click the pen button you have assigned "scroll click" to and drag the pen on the tablet it will scroll (up/down & left/right). I found this in the release notes PDF on Wacom's site.

Very cool! I emailed the tech support (& the PR division) a few weeks ago about adding this exact feature, and wasn't given a very promising answer. Looks like they thought it was worth doing.

It works great and it eliminates the only complaint I had about the Wacom tablets - needing to use two hands for tasks/software that you could do one-handed with a scroll ball mouse. I hated having to search out and grab the scroll bar in Mail, Safari, etc. And the Touch Strips on the Intuos just don't do it for me.

It works great. Make sure you restart, it seems the scroll speed settings for this feature don't take unless you restart your Mac, and you aren;t prompted to do so by the installer.

Thanks Wacom!

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Type: Comments
Date: 13 Apr 2007 19:39

Same issues here, I just emailed tech support to let them know what's going on in case nobody had done that already.

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Type: Hint/Tip
Date: 10 Jan 2007 12:42

It depends on the size of your downloads, but I just set any housecleaning rules to activate after an hour.

I have new downloads labeled green (to visually sort after downloading), and then have them move to a subfolder after an hour.

Hazel then processes the files in the subfolder after a few days (removing the label) so I have a visual indicator of recent files I have downloaded.

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Type: Comments
Date: 12 Nov 2006 15:27

This is getting better. The new display method is perfect. A few things I think are missing though:

- the Prefs need a way to preview the settings for the opacity. Perhaps a checkbox to show the message with the current settings while editing.

- the Messages window is not very user-friendly. It needs to have Groups & checkboxes for both groups & individual messages so one can turn on and off stored messages. The default list is odd (what is up with the "lonely" item?) and should be it's own group. Also need a way to shift & command select multiple items to delete.

- messages need to allow for a longer length. The current limit doesn't allow for more than a few words. I'd like to get a sentence or two in there.

- I'd also like to see a prefernce for longer on screen settings, where the message might not be so subliminal. Would be nice for motivational quotes & such. A fade in & fade out would be nice for the longer settings.

- On-screen message is not centered (at least not on my MacBook). It's a bit to the left and above center.

Would even be cool if you could set separate prefs for certain groups, allowing certian messages to appear on-screen longer & darker, with longer intervals (15, 30, 45 & 60 mins) while simultaneously allowing other groups to use alternate settings (5, 10, 15, 30 seconds) with different duration & opacity.

Enjoying the development on this project, I think the dev is on to something cool here.

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Type: Comments
Date: 25 Oct 2006 13:59

What this thing needs is a bezel (similar to when you change the Mac's audio volume) that flashes a *customizable* message at not only the speed, but the interval set by the user. Using Growl maybe?

Should be text only (no gray outline) or at least customizable (size, color, transparency etc. for both text & bezel box)

Clicking on those buttons isn't very subliminal at all. Needs to do it's thing while you are doing other things on your Mac.

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Type: Comments
Date: 27 Sep 2006 16:54

I guess I should have been clearer:

Growl has an option for bezels to be sticky after inactivity, so clicking them to dismiss would execute the actions. Or if you had them all set to sticky, then dismissing them would execute the action, correct? Maybe I am not clear on how that works.

Awesome nonetheless, just nitpicking :^)

And thanks for making this available.

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Type: Review
Date: 27 Sep 2006 10:31
Features:5 Stars
Ease of Use:5 Stars
Value:5 Stars
Stability:5 Stars

Awesome.

The only thing missing for me in Camino was Growl support, and now it's here (OK, Safari's AutoFill was missed, but 1Passwd is far beyond the AutoFill in any browser).

The ability to open the Downloads window and/or the file from the Growl bezels is cool as well, although I am curious how one dismisses those bezels without performing the action.

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Type: Comments
Date: 26 Jul 2006 18:18

This is quite cool and very useful when the need for it arises. Thanks for making this available.

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Type: Review
Date: 18 Jul 2006 00:53
Features:4 Stars
Ease of Use:5 Stars
Value:5 Stars
Stability:5 Stars

I just registered this after demoing it along with every other sync app I could find.

While perhpas not for a power user, I found it to be perfect for my needs (synching work files between desktop & laptop). Just enough features to have the control you want, but not so many that you are overwhelmed by all the options, requiring a study session of the user manual.

I like how all the sync sessions are in one window (I don't need to sync very many folders) and the clear result window when doing a pre-sync scan.

Responsive developer as well. I've already requested Growl support and Dock status badges, which I believe are on the way. Hope to see them in the next release.

Can't beat the price either.

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Type: Comments
Date: 17 Jul 2006 01:48

Pretty sweet little app. Throw in some Growl support that supports a short custom text message and it'll be perfect.

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Type: Comments
Date: 16 Jul 2006 12:27

Although I have not used iHoR, it seems another one of those programs that require a client & server app to be running. What's great about iTRC is that it works on it's own.

Not sure what other features iHoR might have as it seems to no longer be developed.

There are a few other iTunes remote apps out there as well, but again require client server apps, or all sorts of time consuming database synchs, or unweildly interfaces etc.

I like iTRC because it's small and it just works out fo the box.

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Type: Comments
Date: 4 Jul 2006 20:16

Having the option to have Growl notifications with this would be perfect, but still very cool.

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Type: Comments
Date: 2 Jul 2006 17:20

These new features, especially the ratings, and the improved stability make this an officially killer app.

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Type: Review
Date: 22 Jun 2006 03:06
Features:5 Stars
Ease of Use:5 Stars
Value:5 Stars
Stability:5 Stars

Great little app, perfect for what it does.

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Type: Comments
Date: 22 Jun 2006 02:28

This thing seems cool, but it keeps trying to grab all my unread emails (there's like 4,000+ - I am lazy about reading everything) and it just takes forever to load. Needs a limiter pref (this week/last 50 emails whatever).

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Type: Comments
Date: 22 Jun 2006 02:23

This is excellent and woroks great with the GMail + Growl app: [url]http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/19508[/url]

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Type: Comments
Date: 17 Jun 2006 15:05

I like the features that Sidetrack offers, however I wish I could also have the option to keep some or all of the Apple features (two-finger right-click, two-finger scrolling especially). (Demoed this on a MacBook).

The pointer tracking also seemed a bit erratic to me compare to when I switched back to the default OS X trackpad pref pane.

Otherwise it's very cool and if the above-mentioned features were available I would most likely register.

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Type: Review
Date: 3 Jun 2006 15:53
Features:5 Stars
Ease of Use:5 Stars
Value:5 Stars
Stability:5 Stars

I was hesitant to try this app after the negative reviews for the earlier versions. I am glad I took the chance with Lifeboat. I was a semi-happily registered user of Deja Vu (it did it's job fine), but there were feature DV was lacking that prompted me to look elsewhere.

Lifeboat not only had everything I was looking for in a backup app, but also has a very responsive developer, willing to take suggestions and fix any glitches. I had a few probs when demoing the app, but I think they were on my end (hard drive going bad and mucking up my system). The dev was super helpful throughout the troubleshooting, and when 1.2 came along I found almost all my requested features implemented.

I registered before the demo expired and have been a happy user ever since.

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Type: Comments
Date: 26 Apr 2006 11:02

The developer's website is gone, don't bother with this one.

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Type: Review
Date: 3 Apr 2006 00:57
Features:4 Stars
Ease of Use:5 Stars
Value:4 Stars
Stability:5 Stars

I like this. I have tried every single last time tracker out there, even *ahem* going outside of MacUpdate to look. I think I even demoed this once but for whatever reason didn't give it a chance.

I came back after once again getting frustrated with my current time software, Sambucus. The developer seems like a good guy, but he just doesn't seem to have the time to program.

On The Job is not for a large studio/office, but for an individual I think it's great. The biggest "feature" of this software is the open-minded and active developer behind it. He's open to suggestions, and fixes any problems almost immediately. To me, that's what shareware is all about - communication with the developer.

OTJ looks slick - you'd think you were in an Apple application. It may seem simple, but I have found the bloat from other apps to just be distracting.

Perhaps in the future my needs may outgrow OTJ, but for now I just wanted a timer app that I didn't need to have to learn to use.

And while I agree to some point with the reviews saying the price seems a bit high, after using this for a week and communicating with the developer, I registered before the demo even ran out.

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Type: Comments
Date: 23 Mar 2006 02:16

This is pretty cool. I was hoping to see the "menubar shows rating" feature as compact as the default single star, my menubar is so crowded.

Perhaps, since the star is 5-pointed, there might be a way to use a single star to reflect the rating - empty/outline (no rating), 2-4 points fill the star incrementally, then full for 5 stars? Each click on the star increases the fill/rating, cycling back to empty in case you change your mind. Just a thought.

Perhaps the 1/2 stars should be optional, that menu is pretty long.

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Type: Comments
Date: 17 Mar 2006 02:48

Very cool widget. How 'bout an option to set the alarm as a "To do" as well?

Great nonetheless.

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Type: Comments
Date: 9 Feb 2006 14:30

Crap, how do you do links in MU? Just go to the author's website, it's there.

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Type: Hint/Tip
Date: 9 Feb 2006 14:29

If you prefer the flip transitions, there is an alternate version which has them back in:

http://sophiestication.de/mint/pepper/orderedlist/downloads/download.php?file=http%3A//sophiestication.de/widgets/itunesartwork/iTunesArtwork_1_4_With_Flip_Transition.zip

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Type: Comments
Date: 28 Jan 2006 15:00

I saw elsewhere that the search result number from Google are the values used.

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Type: Review
Date: 26 Jan 2006 14:10
Features:4 Stars
Ease of Use:5 Stars
Value:5 Stars
Stability:5 Stars

Great little RSS widget, I tried the rest and kept coming back to "In The Know".

Developer is quick to respond and helpful, I've already registered the Pro version.

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Type: Review
Date: 20 Jan 2006 00:42

Perfect!

To be honest I don't even like having a MySpace account, but all my friends do, so...

Not having to go and log in to that horrible interface & design is great.

No probs here on 10.4.4. Only used for 5 mins, but it does what it says.

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Type: Review
Date: 15 Jan 2006 04:27
Features:5 Stars
Playability:5 Stars
Graphics & Sound:4 Stars
Stability:5 Stars

Pretty cool game. Easy to play & learn, and well done.