Firefox | Feb 17 2008 |
JLARO Safari displays the URL of the link in the status bar at the bottom of the window, and even tells you if it will open the link in the same tab, another tab or another window, in the foreground or in the background. What else do you want?
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Firefox | Feb 8 2008 |
JLARO After all these years they still haven't understood that search in the bookmarks should not be limited to site names, but must also include folder names, location, description, keywords. Otherwise, these last two attributes are pretty much irrelevant.
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Firefox | Feb 16 2008 |
DOUG ENGELBART > Safari isn't a security risk. Ah yeah? And why does Apple also publish so many security updates, then? And why can the newest Safari not even display the URL of a link when I am hovering over it (before I may want to click it)? Etc. pp. ...
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Firefox | Feb 17 2008 |
JLARO Safari displays the URL of the link in the status bar at the bottom of the window, and even tells you if it will open the link in the same tab, another tab or another window, in the foreground or in the background. What else do you want?
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Firefox | Feb 25 2008 |
LI_MOM I totally agree with you that NOT telling you what folder a bookmark is located is annoying & frustrating. If you have duplicate bookmarks & want to delete one... you have no way of knowing which folder you're removing it from. FF Bookmarks are just awful.
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Point of View | Dec 26 2007 |
JLARO Totally unplayable. POV makes the CPU activity jumps from below 5% to an average of 90%, with peaks to 97%. And yet, it runs as slow as molasses. Too bad, because it looks like a promising concept. Mac Mini Intel Core Solo 1.5 GHz, 1 GB RAM, OS X 10.4.11
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CUPS-PDF | Nov 17 2007 |
JLARO CUPS-PDF creates ridiculously big files. For example, printing this MacUpdate page yields a 2,1 MB file with CUPS-PDF, while with Print as PDF it only comes in at 256k. Other tests show similar ratios. Another poster said he's happy the PDF folder is no more on the desktop. How does he do it? Every time I move the cups-pdf folder from my desktop CUPS-PDF creates another one to put the files. OS X 10.4.11
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CUPS-PDF | Mar 26 2009 |
CHRIS.H You can change the directory that CUPS-PDF prints to by typing in terminal: sudo nano /etc/cups/cups-pdf.conf and editing the line "Out ${HOME}/Desktop/cups-pdf/" Change the Desktop/ portion to whatever you want. "Out ${HOME}/Documents/pdfs/" maybe? When you are done, hit ctrl+o to save the file and ctrl+x to exit.
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PiP | Sep 19 2007 |
JLARO Very interesting to set up a surveillance camera while working on the computer. Some video compressors introduce a 4 to 7-second delay between image capture and display on my 733 MHz G4. However it's possible to find settings that make the process quasi-instantaneous.
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Zipeg | Sep 3 2007 |
JLARO Now down to 19 seconds to launch with version 1.4.0.645 (and lots of other programs running). Since this is not my main unzipping program for reasons previously stated I can live with it, although it's still annoying for a seemingly simple utility. I have a hunch this is written in Java, is it so?
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Adobe Reader | Jun 5 2007 |
JLARO I have to add to my previous comment that to get short launch times, disable the display of the splash screen in Preferences, General.
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Adobe Reader | Jun 5 2007 |
JLARO One thing that has greatly improved over old versions is the launch speed. I dropped a 5 MB file on the icon of a non running Reader. The program was launched and the file was open in 7 seconds total on my G4. You can find the intaller directly at ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/mac/. Downloads well from the Finder.
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Adobe Reader | Jun 5 2007 |
JLARO I have to add to my previous comment that to get short launch times, disable the display of the splash screen in Preferences, General.
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iBackup | Mar 23 2007 |
JLARO This program may be fine for backup, but the true test of a backup is in the restore. In that respect it falls very short. It can only do a total restore, but not a restore of individual files or folders. Compared to resurrecting a whole drive after a disaster, finding the old version of a lost or modified file is a much more frequent occurrence, and this program cannot do it. I don't want to restore 100 GB when I need one file.
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Zipeg | Feb 17 2007 |
JLARO The mini-survey asks: Which of these features should be implemented first? Before anything: improved launch speed. On my G4-733 it takes 24 seconds before I can do anything, versus 8 for The Unarchiver. And one-click expansion is not possible because by definition it's made to show the content first. However being able to view the content of zip files before expanding them, and being able to expand only selected items inside, are very useful features which I have been looking for for a long time. Most of the time I want to expand archives without first checking their content, so it won't be my default archive expander, but I'll keep it in the Finder's tool bar for special situations.
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Zipeg | Sep 3 2007 |
LEO KUZNETSOV I believe 24 seconds was due to a bug in an earlier version. It was spent downloading plugin for extra formats. New version is available from http://www.zipeg.com and has plugin already embeded in it. Please give it a try and let me know if it did not fix the problem. | |
Zipeg | Sep 3 2007 |
JLARO Now down to 19 seconds to launch with version 1.4.0.645 (and lots of other programs running). Since this is not my main unzipping program for reasons previously stated I can live with it, although it's still annoying for a seemingly simple utility. I have a hunch this is written in Java, is it so?
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Zipeg | Sep 3 2007 |
I really appreciate speed measurements. Yes - Zipeg is Java UI front for excellent p7zip back end engine (kudos to Igor Pavlov). I've tried on my MPB (2GB, Intel) as well as on two Minis (1GB, Intel/PPC) and on both it starts in sub-second period of time. All three systems are 10.4.x running Java 1.5. What is your configuration? I would be interested to understand why it is slow on G4 and how to speed up the start up time. If you want to help please drop me email thru http://www.zipeg.com/mac.support.html I will be willing to make a special version for you with startup profile log and see if I can optimize something. Thank you very much for helping to make Zipeg better. | |
Fission | Sep 20 2006 |
JLARO Still very basic, but it's only a version 1.0.0. For now it won't dislodge Sound Studio (even version 2.2.4 from old Felt Tip) as my favorite simple editor, but I'm eagerly waiting for improvements. What I'm missing: cut and paste to move parts around (there's only cut); merging of files into one; separate left and right channels edition, maximum zoom not large enough. Good points: works with many formats; ID3 tags edition; plays (choppily) when manually moving a selection point, so you can have a sense of where you are.
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Graph Paper Maker | Jul 31 2006 |
JLARO If the author is still scratching his head concerning the comments that only white paper is generated, here's the reason: some international settings (French among them) are using the comma as a decimal separator, instead of a period. Thus Graph Paper Maker is using also a comma in the PDF files, which generates the error I reported earlier. You have to do separator checking and conversion if necessary.
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Graph Paper Maker | Jul 29 2006 |
JLARO For me also it only generates a white page. Preview opens that white page without a hitch, but Adobe Reader complains about the "detection of an unrecognized mark: 1,00000". Compared to other sharewares (one-trick or even swiss knives), 20$ is indeed quite expensive. At 7$ that would be good. OS X 10.4.7
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beRuler | Jul 17 2006 |
JLARO In vertical mode the orange background disappears and the buttons are questions marks. Needs work. OS X 10.4.7
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Baywatch | Mar 27 2006 |
JLARO Nils, I think that if you used the eBay API instead of parsing the auction page you'd get universal support for your widget. The API probably provides the time in a constant format no matter the country of origin. http://developer.ebay.com/common/api | |
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Meander | Mar 3 2006 |
JLARO I've already rated this excellent application, so I won't this time. It's becoming excellent. My only major gripe at this point is that the Save dialog should be standard, i.e. allow me to save anywhere I want. I don't like to save documents in my Library, especially that I often use the Shared user's folder. 1- personal presets for the trace should be savable 2- presets should include the tracing window as well (in the same preset combo than the line) 3- when selecting a preset please keep the Preferences window on top.
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Meander | Mar 4 2006 |
SHIELADIXON Thanks very much for your support and suggestions, jlaro, and to everyone who's sent suggestions and encouragement. This is exactly what I hope to get from putting out an early beta, and I've had a much bigger response to this app than anything I've done before. The save location is an interesting one. It was quite a conscious decision to leave out the standard save dialogue, and one I thought about long and hard. I settled on the way that I've done it for two reasons: 1. My mum isn't technically-minded at all, yet she gets a huge amount out of her mac - photos, music, email and internet. For ages she was blissfully unaware of files and folders. I think it was a clever move of apple to take that stuff out of apps such as iTunes and iPhoto - it makes them far more usable, and I can see Gates following suit. The flip side of this is that people like you and I like to be in control of where our stuff goes and I can see where you're coming from. 2. I wanted to be able to see a list of saved routes and switch between them with a single-click for comparison - the neat answer to this was to store all routes in the same place and display a simple list of all routes (like the library in iTunes or iPhoto). I certainly do take your point - and as I store more routes, I'm going to need some flexibility here too. My suggestion is that I allow the user (in prefs) to specify where the routes are stored (as iTunes does), and also allow some kind of categorisation (sub-folders, if you like, or like the albums in iPhoto and playlists in iTunes). It's really interesting that you've asked about the presets including the tracing window. That's the way that I had it working when I started to build in the presets. I can't explain why I didn't like it - it felt a bit confusing and messy. I've also thought about a separate preset on the window settings. I'm open minded on this and welcome further input. I love the idea of being able to save your own presets - I've had this in mind already and will put it on the 'definate' list! You're quite right about the prefs window staying on top - I tried it both ways and the reason for bringing the tracing to the top is a long and boring one involving drop shadows which isn't an issue any more. For the record, other things that I'm thinking about putting in before the first 'real' release (v1) will be a 'twistable' scale - so that you can calibrate using a vertical scale, or any other known distance regardless of orientation (several people have suggested this). It'll also float on the tracing window - I hate the current separate scale window. Also the ability to attach comments on the route, in the form of little sticky notes or pins or something. I'm also thinking about some kind of option to take a snapshot of what's under the tracing window and saving that with the route. Further feedback will be much appreciated!
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VelaClock | Feb 18 2006 |
JLARO Improvements? Here are some: 1- The possibility to enter the coordinates of any point on Earth and define its name, country and time zone would be great. It's all mathematical, so why should we be tied to a fixed and limited developer-supplied city list? 2- A slider (with the date as text below) ranging a complete year to quickly see the effect of date on daylight.
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Meander | Feb 13 2006 |
JLARO Great changes you made! Problem: Clicking the yellow button on the scale window's title bar creates a big white rectangle on the space previously occupied by the window. And why can't we just close the scale window (and be able to reopen it) ? Is it possible to show the distance in the tracing window's title bar, and/or to have a much smaller distance window (almost like two-popup high, without even a title bar if possible) ? Again, I'm thinking screenshot and the possibility to include the distance in a non-obstrusive way. Would it be difficult to allow the dragging of the trace, even partly out of the window? For example, if I pan a map, I'd like to move the trace to reset my last point and continue from there. When the tracing is finished, undoing the last point should, I think, simply remove the last segment and create a new endpoint, not continue with a new segment. | |
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Meander | Feb 12 2006 |
JLARO Very clever, very well executed, brilliant. Suggestions for improvements: - Add a menu item to show the Scale window if it's been closed. - Remember the last scale unit used. - Let the user select the width and color of the trace, it's sometimes hard to see. - Allow deletion of the last segment - Allow a totally transparent Tracing window for taking better screenshots.
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Meander | Feb 13 2006 |
SHIELADIXON Thank you very much for your kind comments and suggestions - look out for v0.3 which will contain many of these improvements. | |
Meander | Feb 13 2006 |
JLARO Great changes you made! Problem: Clicking the yellow button on the scale window's title bar creates a big white rectangle on the space previously occupied by the window. And why can't we just close the scale window (and be able to reopen it) ? Is it possible to show the distance in the tracing window's title bar, and/or to have a much smaller distance window (almost like two-popup high, without even a title bar if possible) ? Again, I'm thinking screenshot and the possibility to include the distance in a non-obstrusive way. Would it be difficult to allow the dragging of the trace, even partly out of the window? For example, if I pan a map, I'd like to move the trace to reset my last point and continue from there. When the tracing is finished, undoing the last point should, I think, simply remove the last segment and create a new endpoint, not continue with a new segment. | |
Baywatch | Feb 6 2006 |
JLARO It doesn't work properly for me. It might be due to the fact that my OS X (and therefore my iCal) is in French, or that eBay changed its date display at some point. The eBay pages I look at are in English. A listed eBay.com end time is "Feb-06-06 17:11:39 PST", but Baywatch puts it in my calendar on June 17th, 2006, at 11:39. A listed eBay.ca end time is "06-Feb-06 18:57:39 EST", but Baywatch puts it in my calendar on June 18th, 2006, at 00:00. So until this is resolved this program is of absolutely no use. To the developer: it would be useful to show the end date in the Baywatch window so we can make sure it's the right one before adding the event to the calendar.
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Baywatch | Mar 27 2006 |
i think you´re right with your assumption. The country of the ebay site you visit must suit the country settings in the system preferences. For example when you are looking at ebay.com, then you must set USA as the region. You can find it here: System Preferences -> Country Settings -> Format -> Region I admit it is a little bit bothering for people whose system language is different to the country of the ebay site they visit... P.S.: Thanks for the hint with the end date. I wrote this one down...
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Baywatch | Mar 27 2006 |
JLARO Nils, I think that if you used the eBay API instead of parsing the auction page you'd get universal support for your widget. The API probably provides the time in a constant format no matter the country of origin. http://developer.ebay.com/common/api | |
TrimTheFat | Jan 16 2006 |
JLARO I trimmed 19.41 MB (40%) from Graphic Converter 5.7.5 X UB. Very good. Keep up the good work! Before you release 1.0, can you do what many other developpers also neglect to do: remove unnecessary menus and menu items. They look like table leftovers.
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TrimTheFat | Jan 16 2006 |
GREGW I think I can arrange that. I've been paring it down as I determine the specific items aren't going to be useful. Thanks for the feedback and encouragement.
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Roger That | Jan 14 2006 |
JLARO Too many widgets, when not in use, take too much screen space. I don't mind a widget overlapping another when selected, but otherwise it's just rude to be so expansive. Less is more in widget-land. Can you make it so that in the minimized state only the first two drop-downs and the first line of the text box show? The rest is wasting space in a crowded dashboard, especially the bottom 40% that's totally useless.
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| Dec 22 2005 |
JLARO No matter what the save path is defined to, the pictures are actually saved in the widget bundle. I found them by accident when I was looking for the documentation. Can you add a visual and audible countdown before the picture is taken, and a visual and audible cue that the picture has been taken? Can you show the version number on the front or the back of the widget? Can you make the widget smaller? The back panel can stay as big because a lot of information appears.
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| Dec 20 2005 |
JLARO It doesn't work with the iSight plugged in my G4 Quicksilver. When I click on the widget the camera's green light turns on, but nothing happens further and no file is created on my hard disk. After a few seconds the iris on widget closes and the camera's green light turns off. There are absolutely no instructions. That would be a start, even for such a simple thing.
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JewelCase | Jan 13 2005 |
JLARO Yes, please send (or post on your site) the plug-in alone. I don't care about "Send to a friend", even if I don't exactly know what it is. Somebody made a remark that they'd like to see artwork from their own iTunes library. I add my voice to that. Going to Internet should be an option.
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