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Stienka, MacUpdate is an international site. Next time, please write your comments in English, not in Italian. Thanks. |
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WARNING: the release 1.5.1 is a developer preview, not yet a new stable release, as reported in the developers' web site. It crashes immediately as I try launching it on my G5 iMac. |
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This second beta of incoming 0.98 dramatically increase the responsiveness of the application (I'm on a G5 iMac with OS X 10.5.3). Still there's one systematic bug, but with a work-around. At the first connection after launching the application I get an error message, I click on "Ignore" then the program goes on but the connection to MSN doesn't establish. The work-around is: quit aMSN and relaunch it again. The connection this time works. This is the reason for my very personal rating 3 stars on stability. Very good is the capability to access the personal MSN Spaces contents directly from the contact list. Still missing the audio, but for the rest this beta release finally rocks although it's not yet native Cocoa. Keep up the very good job, men! |
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First time I tried installing this 1.1.13 on my iMac G5, OS 10.5.3 it didn't suceed (the installer exits with a message "impossible to install Growl on this computer"). I retried a few seconds after and this time apparently the installation succeeded. Is it normal? What could have happened? |
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iMac G5 (PPC): the application crashes when quitting. This did not happen with the previous PPC only version. |
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well one point i don't understand. libgaim is achieving no meaningful result for integrating audio video. there are other free multiplatform software developped as well by volunteering people that are able to support video (just think of amsn or mercury). still the developers of adium decided to stick with libgaim and not to look for something else more suitable. i understand they're volunteering, but if their line for video is rely on other parties sw, if the solution they choose is not providing any visible forecast of result, why do they still stick on that? this is really something beyond my understanding. |
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Well, guy: just write from scratch an application in Japanese or Chinese, then we'll come back to you and decide to rank you based on the correctness of your spelling. Down to earth, guy, and kudo to the developer for this nice piece of freeware. |
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Unfortunately, on PPC (G5) this application crashes when trying to Save a file after the processing. Additionally, it hangs when trying opening files with .jpg extension even if they are captured directly from the camera. By the way, as an hitn for the future improvements: it would be definitely useful to have also a "Save As..." option rather than the plain "Save". |
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I read that post: I know that people to be addressed are not the developers of Adium but other ones. However there's a marketing reason why I can't accept the position of the developers. There's a very strong demand for video support. Developers are not going into direct developing for video, nice to me. Developers are using third-part software for the protocol handling, nice to me. Developers are not considering additional third-part software with a reliable support of video protocols as an add-on to this product to make it more complete, not nice to me. |
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Pretty nice piece of software, kudo to the developers. However, as long as it comes to chat via MSN, I prefer sticking to aMSN for its webcam support. That's an hint and a solicitation to the developers: just add webcam and videoconferencing and you'll reach perfection on Earth :) |
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you're not forced to use the MSN official client to chat with your friends on MSN. you can use aMSN or Mercury. they're practically aligned to the feature set of the latest MSN Window Client, the only thing yet missing yet being audio. They've got everything else: video, animated emoticon, file transfer, etc.etc.etc. Work seamlessly with the integrated iSight on iMacs. They're Universal Binaries. And they're free :) |
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I'm sure the guys working at Microsoft's Mac BU are filled with good will and skill. And I'm aware that they're delivering what their bosses ask them to deliver. But, hey: this official client simply sucks. Independent free developments such as amsn and mercury are light years ahead, although they haven't any official access to MS protocols for MSN. Until this official client isn't at least fully aligned to the corresponding Windows version, I won't bother wasting bandwidth, time and space on my Mac to download and install this stuff. |
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Yep, not only it's no longer free but a single license costs $399!!!! OK, nice piece of sw, lots of effort, it's fair to ask money for it. OK, you have full functional version not-expiring for free but that's just for "evaluation purposes". But going from totally free to $399 in just one shot, well guys, that's maybe one step too much. What about considering a special discount or a special pricing for single-computer, single-user licensing? |
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@AQTINC Just for your info: I *AM* a professional. And a *BIG* professional. I started working in 1979, nice times when M$ DOS wasn't present on any computer in the world except on those of its developers. I know this can sound surprising to you, but I can assure you that you're not the only guy working as professional in this world. And your opinion is not the Truth and not even just true just because you claim being professional. Unless you're professionally God. Bye. |
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@AQTINC: I listen. But I can't understand such kind of hard criticism toward a guy who spent his time to provide an honest application who's just doing what is claimed to do in the way it meant to, simply and efficiently. You may have your reason not to use it and to prefer something else, but in the same way there are also others who, for their reasons as good as yours, prefer using something simpler and that they consider fit enough to their needs. I think that just reading the majority of comments in this thread may give you a better perception about this point. And sorry, but IMHO starting a comment with a sentence like "Why should I use this ...?" and starting criticizing something that *it's working as it claims* is everything but an objective position: I'd say it's a pure subjective matter of pure personal preferences. And sorry again for being very direct - I don't mean being blunt :) - but this kind of comment is everything but useful or helpful and it's a little bit respectless toward the developer (by the way, I haven't any kind of connection with that guy, just to be precise). I think that if there aren't *real* technical or operational considerations to be highlighted to claim (in the substance) "this application sucks" it would be better stating that what you're expressing are just your personal preferences more suitable to your needs, which may happen not to be universal needs appliable to everyone. Thanks for you listening as well. ( |
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I listen. But I can't understand such kind of criticism toward a guy who spent time to provide an honest application who's just doing what is claimed to do, in a simple and efficient way. You may have your reason not to use it and to prefer something else, but in the same way there are also other who, for their reasons as good as yours, prefer using something simpler and that they consider fit enough to their needs. Sorry, but IMHO starting a comment with a sentence like "Why should I use this ...?" and starting criticizing something that *it's working as it claims* is everything but an objective position, it's pure a subjective matter of personal preferences. And sorry again for being very direct - I don't mean being blunt :) - but this kind of comment is everything but useful and it's a little bit respectless toward the developer (by the way, I haven't any kind of connection with that guy, just to be precise). Thanks for you listening as well. |
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why should I prefer this to adobe reader? 1) it's faster 2) it automatically opens up at the maximum screen size, for an optimale reading. not that way with adobe reader 3) about the "plenty of features" in adobe reader: what are you just needing? 99% of the times you access a pdf is just for reading it, at most you search something inside or you select some text to copy&paste: this app does all of that and does it well. I don't care missing the Yahoo! search capability. 4) last but not least: it's damn simple and friendly to be used, much more "Mac" than Adobe Reader |
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That's not a major version but for being an Universal app. But for the remaining part, definitely poor in terms of feature support. There are guys out there that, without accessing MS MSN specs, made out great MSN clients practically aligned to Messenger Win: aMSN and Mercury on the top. I can't believe that a MS division, with full access to all MSN specs, has yet to come out with an acceptable Mac versoin with video, audio and all the other staff. Thumb down, sorry guys of MS MAC BU. |
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The solution for all your troubles is: - drop Microsoft Messenger - go aMSN or Mercury instead |
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With Mac OS X, you can create text with background image with any word processing application you like, then all you have to do is "Print" ->PDF file. Embedded, free, fully working. Sincerely, I don't see any reason why to pay for something that my operating system already does by itself with the most flexibility. |
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TO THE DEVELOPER OF FREECELL Hello I developped the Italian localization for this very nice application. I've been trying sending the localization package to the developer's official e-mail several times but I'm always returned with a "Delivery Failure" message. I even tried using a different mail account of mine, nope. Apparently, the developer's address reported in the official website (the one accessable through the "More Info" link above) is either broken or blocking messages. How can I contribute with my (little) work? |
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Sorry, Casdious, but JAlbum *does* generate also clickable thumbnail pages, with the capability to choose among plenty of templates. Not only that, it does much more (extract and show exif data on demand, scripting, high level of customization,....). And it is FREE. So, I share the first comment in this thread: why should I pay for something when there's something else around which is better and free? |
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Sorry, but JAlbum *does* generate also clickable thumbnail pages, with the capability to choose among plenty of templates. Not only that, it does much more (extract and show exif data on demand, scripting, high level of customization,....). And it is FREE. |
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The more I use this application, the more I love it. Keep up with the good job! Thanks for keeping it free. |
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Please take into account that lyrics should appear (when found) in a Safari window and not inside a comment box - the application is not supposed to do that. |
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Comment posted by the Author of this software: Jon Nathan, I was not aware at all of the existance of your script (and also of your web site). I discover it right now by reading your comment. Please don't feel "copied" or abused, because this is not the case. If I were aware of your script, I'd had spared my time instead of dedicate it to this development, don't you think so? (7/30/2004, Version: 1.0) |
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The main developer of this version 1.1 is actually Mr. Claudio Mussolin by AMUG Sicilia so if you like this product, please direct your kudos to him. My contribution was focused on the help localization. Germano Gasparini. |
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