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Real Name:Blake Harris 
Last Login:27 Mar 2009 12:52
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Coda
Apr 23 2009
*****

JBLAKEH900  Unable to justify Adobe's steep upgrade prices for CS4, I started looking for alternatives to what has become a bloated, slow and expensive suite of software tools. Switching from Dreamweaver to Coda has been a welcome surprise.

Coda is much cheaper than Dreamweaver, and lighter - 50MB vs. Dreamweaver's 400MB+, faster, and much more intuitive. The feature set is more useful and lacks the bloat that has made Dreamweaver such a slug.

The interface is gorgeous compared to the mess of palettes in Dreamweaver - the CSS editing mode is brilliant, and the text hinting while editing code is beautifully implemented. I haven't used the terminal tools yet, as I am more of a designer than a programmer.  
(Version 1.6.4)

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MailServe
Aug 23 2006
*****

JBLAKEH900  Setup was incredibly easy. Intuitive interface, simple, easy-to-understand instructions, and as advertised, very Apple-like.  
(Version 2.1.4)

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Meetro
Jun 15 2006

JBLAKEH900  As of today the network was having bandwidth issues. The app works for me, but I haven't seen the yahoo/msn/aim functionality mentioned on the Macworld article.  
(Version 0.51)

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Color Schemer Studio
Mar 15 2006
****½

JBLAKEH900  I concur the price is a little steep, but I love this program.

Any busy designer will appreciate and benefit from seeing quick color palettes based on a photo or existing logo color - or simply experimenting and testing different color theories - something most creative suites don't bother with at all.

In response to other comments... the UI may not be 100% Mac compliant (neither are most of Apple's own apps), but the UI does not get in the way of using this program - it is very intuitive. Similarly, whatever programming tools were used to build the program don't effect it's performance negatively...  
(Version 1.5)

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Color Schemer Studio
Mar 15 2006

COLOR SCHEMER  Hi jblakeh900,

This latest v1.5 release was actually completely rewritten in Cocoa, so a lot of effort was put into making it as "Mac-compliant" as possible. Redeveloping the app in Cocoa also provided a number of other speed and performance boosts over the previous release.

Aaron Epstein

Color Schemer

www.colorschemer.com  
(Version 1.5)

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